The Future citizen. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1914-????, June 20, 1914, Image 1

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the flowers collection Per Copy 5 Cts. The Future Citizen Per Ycar $1.00 A Paper With a Purpose, Printed by the Reformatory Boys Doing the Best They Can Volume I. Milledgeville, Ga., Saturday, June 20, 1914. Number 10 mm, troubles, m ibibuuiims Fun and Frolic in Moving The Printing Presses From Macon to Milledgeville: (By Chas. A.' Stallings) This is the continuation of the preceding story that appeared un der this head in last week’s issue telling of our trip to the Georgia Industrial Home at Macon and the trouble we had finding the place. Mr. Lovvorn came over with the boys laughing about us get ting lost and ask us did we go to the poor house too. He helped us get our wagons straight ready for loading. We fed our mules then ate supper a’l except*Mr. Lovvorn and he said he said he would wait •3>o more minutes and get a warm breakfast. Then he and Mr. Cochran went back to Mr. Harris’s while us hoys went to one of the officers cottages We all got a good nights rest. The next morning we was called at day-break and Scott: and Hearn made a t i»*e and made coffee. Love Mean said he didn’t drink coffee but he could make it. He filled the pot with water and built a big fire around it and it soon was boiling and he said ‘ get the cups ready” >ve got them and he evidently thought that lie was a magician for what lie gave us whs hot water in stead of coffee. Scott then made some good strong coffee and we had a good breakfast. We got busy straightening our things up, there was printers pi .ill over the floor. We had a hard time trying to keep the little orphan boys out of our wav. We made sure we would get through by dinner but we miss ed it about 4 hours, we got ready to start back toward home about 4 o’clock P. M. we got to Macon about seven o’clock P. M. Mr. Lovvorn decided we had better stop over in Macon until the next morning. We went to a stable an 1 fed our mules and sheltered our wagons then we went to the drug store and got a cold drink apiece. Mr. Lovvorn then paid our way into the Majestic Theater, we were just in time to see pai t of the last act of Susie Ann Carter & Co’s show, but it was fine, as you know if you have seen her play. It was then ten P. M. So we went to the hotel, and got another good nights rest. All except Love Hearn and he was busy trying to get his sister over the phone so that he could talk to her while he was in Macon. We goi our teams out while Mr. Lovvorn telephoned home for a- nother team of mules to meet us. We bought some fresh bread and started again for home. vVe got to Cross Keys about sev en thirty oclock and ate our break fast. Then Mr. Lovvorn’ got the storekeeper to give him a diagram showing the right road to Milledge ville. . We then made our way to James and we were a little in doubt so Mr. Lovvorn stopped and asked a farmer was we ri^ht. and we was. Mr. Lovvorn called us up there and asked us what that little ani mal was that the farmer had. It was a little striped, font legged auitnal with a nose like a fox and weighed about twelve pounds. Scott said tl was an opposs’um and Love Hearn*said it couldn't lx* that because it had a bushy tail, <0 he said it was a heaver and vMga and mvsell di.lu.t guess. Then Mr. Lovvorn said it \va« a coon and Love said he meat a coon instead of a beavet. He was a sure enough pet the man would kiss him, do him as lie pletsed and he would’til even make an attempt to bite him. We got a cool drink of water and started for James. We got there about three thirty P. M. we water ed and fed our mules and made a lire while Mr. Lovvorn went to the station to see if the wagon had got to Haddock and they said it had been there hut it had left for Ma con. So we had ju-t -t tried to Continued on puge Three BOY SCOUTS Off 10 LORO’S LUKE Big Bunch headed by Dr. Brannen And Scout Master Vance King Off on Fishing Camp Have vou ever been a t>ov ? Ye*— No, Well, anyway, maybe vou can appreciate the unbounded joy of the thirty young Americans who loaded on top of bag and baggage in McCombs big Auto truck early Mon lav morning. Fishing poles protruding behind, frying nans . hanging from the standards, blank ets rolled up soldier-fashion, suit cases that had seen better days but could never survive many worse ones,- cans of earth worms ami bottles of bugs.— all packed in crev ices and held in place by a husky bunch of rollicking youngster-*. Some sat 011 suitcases, some on rolls I of blankets, some ast ride bunches of fishing poles- some sal on each other and some hooked a pair of parent bet ical legs around t wagon standard and sat quite comfortably on tlu* I ra/.zled edge of imagination. Happy? well 1 guess, rather. I'o beany happier tnev would hive to be aboard the white chariot with wheels of fire and headed straight for the pearly gates. We watched tpem and wondered j how anybody could be grouchy or tired of the world. We hope the hoys will have a pleasant trip with plenty of fish and tun, and umnarred by any un toward accident. Dr. Brannen lias been conduct ing these pilgrimage*- for many , years and met with splendid success I ami in tlx* minds of the boys t.e and Mi. Lying are bigger men today than Huerta and Villa and all tnc • other big dog*. o| war. Here s to you hoys, eat the solt and succulent roas’n ears of life and enjoy them while vou may. Soon the ripening sunmiei comes and tin* hoary frost of autumn will -erve vou with the hard corn and grit-* of living * * Siio' nut 1. *'