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Vol. XXIII No 42
G.W. Madray
- Found Guilty
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Jesup, Ga., Nov. 29.—The
jury trying G. W. Madray for
the murder of Judge James R.
Thomas returned a verdict at
5:20 o’clock this afternoon, find
ing the -defendant guilty of
voluntary manslaughter and
fixing his sentence of at six to
eight years in the state prison.
The jury was out for 20 hours
and 33 minutes. Attorneys for
the convicted man have filed an
appeal for a new trial.
Madray had no statement to
make when Judge J. D. Blalock,
of the Waycross ecircuit, who
presided at the trial, pronounced
sentence on him. His wife was
gitting nearby at the time and
all but swooned when the guilty
verdict was read.
Madray killed Judge Thomas,
who presided over the Jesup
City court, here Nov. 2, follow
ing an argument between the
two men over the presidential
election, Madray was slashed
by Thomas during the fight.
The prosecution was conduct
ed by Solicitor General W. B.
Gibbs, assisted by Allen Spence,
of the Waycross circuit. The
defendant was represented by
William Turner and the mem
bers of the law firm of Parker
and Parker, Waycross. ;
The case consumed two days
before it reached the jury.
Both the men were prominent
~in Wayne county. Madray being
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tfiumy Agent’s Column
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If the farmers of this sectioni
are ever going to start on the
road to prosperity, now is the
time to do it. ‘
The only way that I know how
to advise you to do this is to
begin living at home, .
What I mean by living at
home is to plant a large garden
both for winter and spring.
Grow plenty of good hogs for
your own home use and some to
sell. Have plenty of milk and
butter for home use and sell‘
gsome sour cream. Increase the
«pumber of chickens and Eeed|
them and sell either eggs or
broilers. Grow plenty of feed
for your livestock.
Then after growing your food
at home, plant some cotton #nd
tobacco for your money crop
and you will be on the right
road.
The hog, the hen and the cow
wiil do more for you year after
year than all tobacco, all cotton
andsa mortgage,
See your county agent for
bulletins on home gardens and
akything else that you are in
terested in.
Hoover And Al
Injected In J. P. Race
In one of the hettest contested
J. P., elections evér held in the
Hazlehurst District was that
held last Saturday when Rufus
Ellis won out over thc present
incumbent, W. N. Gantt, by the
tune of 120 to 69.
The Hoover-Al race was in
jected into this race, Gantt
being a hot Hooverite in the
recent presidential race and
Bllis just as hot for the Demo
cratic mominee. The old liné
Pemoerats gos Ellis into the
Assults shows what ghey show -
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Penned Note On
Eve of Death
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 25.—
Saturday night a young man
in his upper twenties called at
the desk of Wyatt A. Taylor,
city editor of the Record here,
and said he had a friend whoi
was planning to commit suicide
and he wanted to know if a
letter he proposed to leave could
be published in Atlanta and
Jacksonville, that a young
woman in whom he wss interest.
ed might know that he was
gone.
The visitor insisted that he
was not the person planning the
rash act and that he had been
unable to dissuade his friend
from his rash proposal. He did
not give his name or that of the
friend. : l
When he left the office the
city editor had him followed by
a reporter, but he detected the
fact soon and lost himself in the
crowd of Saturday. night shop
pers in the business district.
Today the city editor looked
into the face of the same man,
as he lay a corpse on the opera
ting table of a mortuary here.
Last night after midnight, he
locked himself in the bathroom
of the boarding house where he
lived and stuffed towels around
the door and turned on the gas.
'His stiffened body was found
this morning by his landlady,
and several notes were found
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landlady and one to his dector,
who had been treating him for
an injury to his feot, which he
told his employer was caused in
a forced landing at Savannabh,
where he flew with Paul Red
fern prior to Redfern’s last
flight toward Brazil. No rela
tives of the young man have
baen located as yet. There was
also a note to a young lady,
whom he said would be either
in Jacksonville or Atlanta,
whom he had not seen for a
year, and whom he addressed
as Claire Milt. He called her‘
gweetheart and poured out a
iove which he said he wished he
could b@ sharing with her at|
the time of his death. In his
note to the docter he usked that
his grave be marked, for some!
day someone would pass by and |
place a flower on it. |
A young woman with whom
he has been very friendly of|
late, left here Saturday after |
noon. ‘Wood learned of her
departure, rushed to the station’
to find that her train had left
only a few minutes before. l
Preparing For Chrisimas !
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The merchants of Hazlehurst!
are preparing for a great bigi
Christman trade. The stoves!
are packing up with Santa Claus'
and the people ure flocking the!
streets looking over these goods.
This promises to be a great,
Christmas in Jeff Davis county, |
as our people are not half broke
when tt comes to buying for
the Holidays and Santa Claus l
Thanksgiving Day Observed
Last Thursday, Thanksgiving
Day, was observed in Hazle
hurst. All business houses
ware closed for the day and
‘most of our people spent the day
at home and enjoyed a bountiful
dinner. Those not remaining
at heme spent the day out
.mot,oriu or hunting it bemg
a 0 idealday for matoring, |
Hazlehurst, Geotgia, December 6,1928
oy Al
Hazlehurst Buildin
Brick Bungalow Going |
Mrs. John F. Hall is haviny
nice, modern brick bungal
erected on her property next
the Methodist parsonage
Tallahassee Street. This
be .one of the most mo
nomes in the city when €6
pleted: - P
* Work started Monday mol
ing on another modern bunga
in Hill Crest. This place is bßs
ing erected by A. D. Finl ‘
an investment. AR
Hazlehurst continues to gros:
slowly,- but. surely. There aFe
othets: planning to build nige|
homes in the near future. DI
Oliver and Hugh Taylor already)
have plans drawn for modéFn)
homes and work will probabily
begin after the holidays. ~ ¥
Singing Convention
The Jeff Davis county 1?
singing convention will be held
at Cross Roads church next
Sunday, December 9th, Eve &’;
body is most cordially invite mé
attend and enjoy some good
old-fashioned singing. 1} §
will be a dinner spread &nd
everybody is asked to by 1
baskets. Lets meet together
and have a good time here jus
before the glorious Holidaysst |
L. M. Harrell, Secy. 8
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS PLAN T 0 RAISE
32,000,000 AS CHRISTMAS OFFERING
In probably the largest single ex
tra Christmas cash offering that
has ever been sought by &ny de
nomination in America, the South
ern Baptist Convention is asking
the churches affiliated with it to
provide a cash thank offering at
the approaching Christmas season
of $2,000,000. The proceeds will
be applied toward the retirement
of heavy debts upon the Home and
Foreign Mission Boards and several
other agencies of the Convention.
Combined debts of approximately
$5,750,000 are now owed by the
various Southern Baptist Conven
tion boards and - institutions, these
debts having accumulated over a pei
tod of several yezrs hecause the reg
ular receipts from the churches have
not been sufficient to maintain the
work of the various fnstitutions as
expanded a few years ago when the
churches were supporting missions
end bencvolences more generously
than they are today. A portion of
the total indebtedness is bonded
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and does not have to be paid ¥his
year, but $2,000,000 represents im
mediate demmnds wpon the boards
and institutions, -hence the call of
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previde this large cash sgm Shrough
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Hazlehurst Hotel
E Changes Hands
. The Hotel Hazlehurst changed
jands on December First. Mrs.
Roebuck, who has so efficiently
managed this hotel during the
past eighteen months, is retiring
nd Mr. and Mrs. J. D. An
drews assuming management.
| Mrs. Roebuck is one of the
best known hotel operators in
[South Georgia and came here
land built up a fine business for
the hotel. She will leave for
‘Homerville, Ga., to assume the
management of a new hotel
which is to open up there. The
hotel which she is taking over
in the Clinch county Capitol is a
imodern one in every way. Her
and her family lef%es Hazle
;«éfhurst carrying the very best
‘wishes of a host of friends.
Hazlehurst regrets to give them
them up as citizers, but con
gratulates Homerville in win-‘
ning them,
Mys. Andrews has had ma‘nyl
years experience in the hotel
business and there is no doukt
about the Hotel Hazlehurst re
maining on the same high plane
(Mrs. Roebuck left it.
Mr. Gantt Thanks Voters
I take this method in thank
ing those who voted for me in
the election of Saturday for J.
P. To those who so loyally
stood by me will never be for
gotton. To those who saw fit
to oppose me I assure them that
Christmas gift are Dr. George W.
Truett of Dallas, president o! the
Southern Baptist Convention, and
\members of the large Executive and
Promotion Committees of that body.
Business Men Give Liberally
Ind.cating the manner in which
the Baptist business men of the
‘South are responding to the call
tor the Thank Offering, a layman
in one state has agreed to add
}sloo.ooo to the fund if the Baptists
of the Scuth generally respond
the «ilori. while another business
man in atother state Ras announced
an lcoadilowal gift of $50,0060. Un
der the leadership of Dr. J. T. Hen
derson of Knoxville, secretary of
the Southern Baptist Brotherhocd,
an effort is being made to enlist
all the large Baptist business men
of the South in making big gifts
to this effort. From this source
several hundred thousand dollars is
expected.
In its appeal for the success of
this cash offering, the Executive
Committee of the Southern Conven.
tion is asking individual Baptists
throughout the South to join in giv
ing sacrificially to this purpuse
through the elimination of unneees
sary giving to one another and mak
ing their Christmas gifts to Christ
and his causes instead.
The proceeds of the offering will
be distributed among the several
Convention objects upon the follow
ing basis:
Foreign Missions ..ocvevvennicnne.bd B
Home Mimolons ..........cc00000000..22%4%
Rolief and Annaity Bosrd ......e... 9 %
BRenton "Pohdd: ......icioivesseseee B 3 B
Southern Bepiist Theological Seminary 5 %
Southweotern Heminary ..........0.. %%
Baptist Bible' Insiitute ....eeeoeees 334%
New Orloans Horpital ......sOOOOOOO. 8 %
W. M. U. Treining Belical ...ovoeeee @ %
American LDsptist Theol. Seminary.. %%
POTAEB coosccccsosccscssoaccncss 100 %
Will Wipe Out Foreign Board Dabt
Tho 'raising of the full $2,090,000
objactive, it will be seen, will pro
vide $1,000,000 for the Foreign Mis.
sten Board. This, aecording to Bec
retary Ray, will make it possible for
that board to pay its entire indebs
edness, roinforce it American mis
slonary staff to ite former standard,
rostore the 600 native misslonaries
ivho werd dismisged a few years
ago for lack of sands, two
] s and 236 mission -} re
by the Christian lit e progrem
;’v send out 150 trained young peo
y who are anxjously qm
opportuaity o eéngage Ia
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W. M. S. Elects Officers
Pres, Mrs. J. M. Hinson
V. Pres. Mrs. W. H. Brooks.
Rec. See. Mrs, E. Fisher.
' Cor, Sec. Mrs. Bob Williams.
Treas. Mrs. B. B. MeDonald.
Supt. supplies Mrs. Bill Hin
son,
Supt. Study Mrs. J. C. Ben
nett.
Supt. publicity Mrs. Otto Mid
dleton,
Supt. Junior work Mrs. D.
L. Evans.
Social Service Mrs. Robt.
Harrison.
Agent Voice Mrs. G. M.
Quinn.
Local Tres. Mrs. R. A. Cook.
Family Reunion |
An affair enjoyed by all par"
ticipating, was a Thanksgiving
barbacue and family reunion at‘
the hame of Mr. and Mrs. E.
A, Colson, four miles from
Hazlehurst. All of those pre.
sent report a grand time. ‘
(Editor’s Note:—Friend Biy
Ed, why in the dickens didn’t
you remember The News force
with a hunk of that delicious
barbecue? Oh, well, our tough'
luck. :
Jeff Davis County Folks
At Waycross Fair
Concerning those taking an
intereßt in the recent Fair held
iWayeross, the Waycross
ul says: tod
o Jeir Davias colfntv” M
Cox had the support of a great
number of people who expressed
their delight at being able to
have a part in such a great
educational event. Among the
helpers coming- from Jeff Davis
were Mrs. Monroe Hinson, Mrs.
John Bennett, Mrs. Rowland
Cook, Mrs. Gault, Miss Irma
Smith, Miss Alice Burns and
Mr. Rowland Cook. Cther visit
ors were Misses Rosa Lee Rod
denberry, Grace Weatherly,
Mrs. D. L. Evans, Mrs. Wallace,
Messrs. C. O. Smith, Mack
Middleton, Clark, Sanders,
Harrison, Gault, O’Quinn, Co
croft, Williams, Gdom, Bennett,
Woodward, Wilkes, Bailey and
Rrals. In addcition to the above
practically all the teachers in
Jeff Davis county attended the
fair on Monday.
\ Philadelphia News
Our Sunday Schoo! is pro
gressing nicely. LEverybody is
invited to attend every Sunday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock.
~ Misses Myrtie and Alice Car
ter, of Douglas, visited home
folks here last Suncay.
Mr. D. E. Mims has his house
almost ready to move into;
Mr. Felton Carter, of Way
eross, spent Thanksgiving with
homefolks.
Col. snd Mrs. Williams, of
Baxley, were guests of their
father, Mr. J. M. Head, Sunday
P, Al 1
Preaching wservices every 3rd‘
Suturday and Sunday. Both
day and night services. You
sre invited to come,
Dr. J. W. Smith '
Optician, Hazlehurst, Ga.
All Work Guaranteed. 1 carry
mu times & fult and gomplete
$1.50 Per Year
RED CROSS BACKBONE
Men and Women Who Give Serv
icas Aid CGreaily — Surgical
Drezzings, Knitting, Sewing
Stili Carried On.
Thousands eof women, who were
first enrolled a2s Rad Cross workers
during the period of the World War.
have never ceascd in their Jabors for
-that organization, but still carry ea
knitting garments f{or disabled sol
diers, Inaking dresses and layettes
for children and infants, and giving
hours of their time in the various
voluntecr activities of Red Crose
work, Voluniecer work by men also
plays a large part in the organizatios
of Red Cross.
This voluntecr work is the back
bone of Red Cross. Fully eighty-five:
per eent c¢f the service this humasi
tarian orgzanization is able to render
the public, through public health
American Junior Red Cross, servigg
to disakled vetcrans of the World
War, and the service men of the regu
lar establishment, and its many other
activitfes, muzt fall vpan the shoulder
of the voluutez¥ wiiker. Not only
sth irue of tho national headquar
;e‘r?‘%herq such distinguished voluy
teers are enrolled as Judge John Bar
ton Payne, chairmai, %gd Miss Mabe!
Boardman, secretary -of the
Cross, and Col E. B nel r
chairman in char ‘foréjgn L
tion, but also in ‘every ,eommunity
where Chapter chairmen and other
men and womon devote hours of tholr:
time to fostering and planning tht,
valuable and humane work of Red .
Cross, so that it may be ever ready !
to serve in-time of distress, catas *
trophe or great national emergency. |
In the year just ended, 253,000 gar
ments wcre provided by Red Cross
Chapters, including 1,399 layettes
with nineteen articles each, for use
ings ten voars ago, with the help of
new voluntecrs, still carry on this
work for hospitals in their commani
ties, and for the Chapter's stock,
where a bupply must be maintaiced
to answer emergency calls. In the
year just cnded, the women made
2,276,000 dressings.
No type of volunteer work is more
interesting or moets greater apprecia
tion from its bencficiarics than the
~ distribution each Docember of Christ
- mas bags-—-cne of which goes te
‘ every service man in the Army and
Navy stationed on a distant post.
~ Each year the regucst comes tor mare
bags, until for Clrisiraas, 1928. Red
~ Cross voluntecis have becn asked te
provide 42,000. ‘vhie bags, contairing
small nccessitics dear th a servies
- man’s hcart, go to the Philippines,
China, Guam, Nicirasua and all the
- distant poris where Uncle Szm's mem
i are stationed,
Anether scrvice these volunteers
perform, which hos generally gripped
the imagination of all who have eome
in touch with it, is the transcription
into Braille for the bizd of hurdreds
of books. IMNeced of certain types of
books fer the blind first came to the
attention of Rcd C'ross through o
blinded velerans of the World War.
From wcrik begun for the war blind,
with a fsw devoled workers, this
transcripiien of books now is heing
! carried on by 1,029 RBraille transerib
ers, who during th!s year have hand
copied 130,705 pages, and 348 titles
have been eampleted. L
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O s bsceribers will have to
T U Cvttle by paying up
heir sebie v p ey, Qur paper
PONICS O b oweek and we
are fereco sy eet the bills for
biank ju;er Ve me working
real b tovive you a good
little cotty paper and we wil
more thuy #ipreciate it if you
will come ‘orward &nd pay up
your subseription,
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To The Public: ‘
I havi 2<%vrred manage
ment of th. Hotel Hazle
hurst ard wiil eppreciate all
busines~ with the assurance
that we wii serve only the
best of everything.
Reaxpnable Rates,
Bervies the Best.
8t M:is Cwrrie Andrews