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VOL. XXXVI JULIUS PEACOCK GETS ffIUUL POSTBFFICE NOMINATION AS POSTMASTER SENT TO SENATE BY PRESI DENT HARDING SATURDAY— CONFIRMATION EXPECTED. Dispatches from Washington Sun day conveyed the news that President Harding on Saturday nominated Julius Peacock to be postmaster at Vidalia. No opposition is expected from the Georgia senators to his nomination and it is thought his appointment will be confirmed shortly and that possi bly by middle of June he will assume charge of the. Vidalia office. The appointment of Mr. Peacock has been expected by the citizens of Vidalia, following the examination to secure a list of eligibles for the posi tion, Postmaster S. P. Darby End Mr. Peacock being the only appli cants to be put on the eligble list. Mr. Darby held the appointment un der a democratic administration, and Mr. Peacock is a prominent republi can of Toombs county and served as postmaster at Vidalia twelve years, being succeeded by Mr. Darby, who has served eight years. Os the two eligibles, it was not surprising that dispensers of patronage for the repub lican party should pick Mr. Peacock. Being well experienced in postof fice management, Mr. Peacock ex pects to maintain the service of the Vidalia office at its present high stan dard. MONTGOMERY COUNTY TAX ASSESSORS HAVE SESSION The board of tax assessors of Mont gomery county,, composed of Messrs. F. M. Mcßae, W. T. Harris and J. •B. O’Conner, is in session in Mt. Ver * non this week. They will doubtless continue in ses sion for three weeks. The volume of tax returns is greatly increased on ac count of the return of poll taxes, with slight incident increase in ad valorem taxes, ®n account of the returns of the women. A SHORUESSION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT DEPUTY SHERIFF S. A. HALL WENT TO SAVANNAH FOR LEE CURRIE BUT WAS UNABLE TO BRING PRISONER BACK. Owing to the fact that Chatham county jail is quarantined it was im possible for Deputy Sheriff S. A. Hall to bring Lee Currie back to Lyons Tuesday to stand trial for the third time on a charge of murder. Mr. Hall states that on reaching the jail he was informed by a guard that tnu prison had been quarantined and would not deliever the prisoner to him Court adjourned last Monday after noon for the purpose of securing enough men to report Wednesday morning so as to insure getting a jury to try Currie, but after receiving the information concerning the condition of the jail Judge Hardeman stated Wednesday morning that he had written the Mayor of Savannah re questing him to wire him at Louisville as soon as tlfe quarantine was lifted so that he might call a specal term of court to try Currie. BIG DAY AHEAD FOR ROUNTREE PARK. On June 12th an excursion from Au gusta will picnic at Rountree Park, and on June 19th there will be an ex cursion from Macon, and on July 4th there will be the second excursion froro Augusta. On each of these days there will! be a game of baseball between two picked teams. . It. I. N. ROUNTREE, Prop. v Mmfypmrg fßotritnr. END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR DRAWING NEAR STUDENTS OF VIDALIA PUBLIC SCHOOL WIND UP WORK FOR YEAR THIS WEEK GRADUA TION EXERCISES TUESDAY. The end of a year’s good work for the students of the Vidalia Public School comes this week, examinations which are now in progress winding up Friday. -** The commencement exercfises have been in progress during the week, be ginning Monday afternoon with a re cital by the pupils of the music and expitssion departments, followed on Tuesday by the Nevin Recital, and on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons by the contests between the music pupils. The commencement sermon will be preached Sunday mornihg at the city auditorium by Elder Geo. D. God dard of Milner. Monday night the . senior class exercises will be held and Tuesday evening the graduating ex ercises will take place, the literary ad dress being made by Dr. J. H. Fos ter, former president of Bessie Tift College. BREWTON-PARKER ATTAINS A TOP-NOTCH RECORD It is very probable that Brewton- Parker and South Georga College will meet in a hotly contested game of ball in the near future, being another notch in the series now on between the teams of the respective schools. Ball fans of Mcßae and Mt. Ver non are anxious to see such a game, and they are anticipating an arrange ment by which an agreeable schedule can be arranged. Brewton-Parker is scheduled to play several interesting games during the commencement period. Soperton is to play the local team at Mt. Vernon on Thursday, the 25th. The Soperton team came nearer defeating the Brew ton-Parker boys than any since the road trip several weeks ago. On Friday the Eastman High, with a strongly reinforced team, will come to Mt. Vernon with a view to stop ping the winning streak which has been given Brewton-Parker in the last fourteen games in which they have been engaged. DR. J. W. PALMER OF AILEY OFF ON TRIP TO ST. LOUIS Dr.-J. W. Palmer of Ailey is spend ing the week in St. Louis, where he is attending the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, as one of the delegates from Georgia. Dr. Palmer left Saturday morning in company with Dr. Win. Rawlings of Sandersville, the latter beng the other delegate from Georgia to the St. Louis convention. mia cunm MADE-IN-GEORGIA WEEK WOMAN’S CLUB SERVES GEOR GIA PRODUCTS DINNER WED NESDAY—GEORGIA PRODUCTS DISPLAYED BY MERCHANTS. “Made in Georgia” Week, named by Governor Hardwick for the week of May 22-29, and first sponsored by the Federated Clubs of Georgia, was fit tingly observed in Vidalia. Displays of -Georgia-manufactured and Georgia-raised products were made by a number of merchants and did much to call the attention of the people of this section to the great variety of these products. Warthen’s Grocery had an attractive window of Georgia products handled at this store. At the millinery establishment of Mrs J. E. Thompson was a beautiful dis play of Georgia-made hats and ging ham dresses. Wednesday at the old postoffice j building, the women of Vidalia serv ;ed a delicious Georgia-products din- I ner, which was well patronized by | the citizens of the town. MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1922. CALCIUM ARSENATE FOR SALE TO FARMERS AT ACTUAL COST ) The Georgia state Board of Entomology has arranged with the Seaboard Air Line to Operate a car through the points named below Non dates mentioned,-to furnish Calcium Arsenate to the Farmers jat actual cost which is 9cts. per lb. f. o. b. points and on dates ilsted bleow. Some to be sold at car door fr cash—in packages containing 25, 50, 100 and 200 pounds. SEABOARD AIR LINE TOWN . COUNTY DATE Claxton Evans Thursday. May 25th Collins Tattnall Friday, May 2Gth Lyons Tocmbs Saturday, May 27th ' Vidalia Toombs . - Monday, May 29th Mount Vernon Montgomery Tuesday, May 29th Alamo Wheeler Wednesday, May 31st The State Board of Entomology has found by actual experi ment that Cotton can be grown successfully by this method and it is furnishing Calcium Arsenate on an average of nearly 100 per cent less than it could be purchased for, last year. This is an unusual opportunity for every farmer in the county to get this year’s supply of Calcium Arsenate at the reasonable price of 9cts*per pound, delievered at his county seat. The Dcmon 'stration Agents of the State College of Agriculture ar«r co-operat ing with the Board of Entomology in this movement. Detailed information will be given at the car as to how and when to use the Calcium Arsenate. Car will be on tracks of Seaboard Air Line on above dates. * For additional information see YOUR COUNTY AGENT, LOCAL AGENT, SEABOARD AIR LINE, OR GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY, ATLAN TA, GEORGIA. STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY, By Ira W. Williams. U.I Hit OFFICIALS ~ ffl VISIT 10 VIDALIA GENERAL MANAGER PURVIS AND SUPERINTENDENT DICK SON GUESTS OF KI WAN IANS AT MEETING MONDAY NIGHT. Mr. H. W. Purvis, general mana ger of the Georgia & Florida Railway, and Mr. G. F. Dickson, superintend ent, spent Monday in Vidalia, meet ing local officials and conferring with them regarding the business of the road. Mr. Purvis was accompanied by Mrs. Purvis and during the after noon they were given an auto ride about the city, especially enjoying a visit to local dewberry fields. Mr. Purvis and Mr. Dicksijn were guests of the Kiwanis Club at- their meeting at the New Vidalia Hotel on Monday evening, Mr. Purvis making an interesting talk regarding the dif ficulties of the short-line railroads and of the hard struggles they had had to keep going. Georgia Product* Feast. The menu for the supper was com posed entirely of Toombs county pro ducts, dewberries from local fields occupying a prominent place on the menu. Every Kiwanian was called on to tell the club about some Geor gia products which he felt should be a source of state pride. “Pride of Emanuel" Win*. To give a little fun to the program, three members of the club who are known to he fond of Emanuel coun ty. shine were assigned to take the affirmative side of the question, Re solved, That Emanuel County shine is superior to the imported product The negative was championed by three members who are known to have a weakness for Johnny Walker and think there is nothing better than a drop of Scotch. The judges were also carefully chosen, being three tee totallers who tuin their noses up to jboth shine and Scotch alike. The decision of the -judges fwas unani mously in favor of the side champi oning the ,“Pride of Emanuel.” RESIDENCE OF LYMAN HALL IS DESTROYED BY FIRE 0 The large two-trory residence of Mr. I.yman Hall, situated in the ex-j treme north-western sectio'n of Vida-i lia, was destroyed by fire last FriadyJ morning. The fire was discovered about three o’clock and seemed -to have originated in the roof. When! discovered the entire roof was ablaze' and it was impossible to save any ofi Ahe furniture. Mr. Lee Orr. who slept on the second floor, had a-nar row escape and was aide ter save but a few articles of clothing. The loss was partially covered by insurance. THE B. P. I. WINDING UP SUCCESSFUL YEAR ATTENDANCE DURING YEAR IS 105 IN HIGH SCHOOL COM MENCEMENT EXERCISES BE GIN FRIDAY; CLOSE TUESDAY The exercises for the commencement season of the Brewton-Parker Insti tute are to begin Friday evening, the 26th, at 8:30 o’clock, with the con tests' in piano and expression, and continue until Monday evening, the 29th, at which time the graduating exercises and the literary addresses will constitute the program. During the year the attendance in the high sejiool work has reached 105 students, besides those # taking work in the special departments. The graduating class has a largeer per centage of the enrollment than is us ual, there being as many members of this class as there are in the gradu ating classes of many schools of much ■ ••er enrollment. Counting those who are irregular, though classed as seniors, there are now seventeen in the class'. Last year there were 24. This showing for this year is splen did, when the financial strain upon the people of the section is consid ered'. The. Brewton-Parker Institute now enjoys the distinction of a place the accredited lists of the * Georgia Association of Colleges and on the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and this distinction, won by the hard work of the faculty for the past three years is evidently bringing its fruitage in the larger enrollment in the graduating class; for students enter for the senior year’s work on the grounds that their certificates from Brewton-Parker entitle them to college entrance without examina tions. Any of the colleges of the South will accept them on the : r cer tificates, and recently the information came that such institutions as Yale would also accept them. The com munity is to be congratulated upon the fact that we have an institution of the highest rank that can be reach ed by a secondary institution. The contests Friday evening will he between representatives of the twq , literary societies, the Damon and the j Pythian. In the music contest those partici | paUn* will he Misses Elizabeth Bar rett, Beverlr Salter. Vivian H.clmev, and Helen Mcßae, having drawn their i places on the program in the order named. The eontstants in expression j are Misses Charlie Peterson, Willie jCarelock, Gladys Hughes, and Alvah Helmey, these also having drawn places in the order named. The winners will he announced at the close of the contests. a« soon as <Continued on page 9) SEEKING MANAGER EOR TOBACCO WAREHOUSE STOCKHOLDERS OF COMPANY HOPE TO AGAIN SECURE J. W. WARREN TO MANAGE VIDALIA WAREHOUSE THIS SEASON. While no definite arrangement has been made, officers of the Vidalia To bacco Warehouse are in correspond ence with Mr. J. W. Warren, who has managed the local warehouse for the past three seasons, and hop© to contract with him for the manage ment of the local market. However, in the event that Mr. Warren is not secured, the warehouse will be operated and every effort be I made to keep the Vdalia market up I to present rank as one of the leading j tobacco markets of Georgia. Reports from tobacco grawers in this section are to the effect that the crop in in good shape and a good yield is expected. Tobacco men are predicting that growers will secure a fancy price for good tobacco this year. STATE EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS AUGUST 4 AND 5 The regular state examination for teachers will take place on Frday and Saturday, August 4th and sth. The 1922 reading course for teach ers is as follows: Primary and General Elementary. Manual for Georgia Teachers—from County Superintendent, free. Kendall & Mirick’s How to Teach the Fundamental 1 Subjects—Southern School Book Depository, 121 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, postpaid SI.BO. Dressler’s School Hygiene—South ern School Book Depository, 121 Au burn Ave., Atlanta, $1.20. High School and Supervisory. Manual for Georgia Teachers —from County Superintendent, free. Rapcer’s Consolidated Rural School —Southern School Book Depository, 1-21 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, postpaid, ' $1.75. Parker’s Methods of Teaching in High Schools, Ginn & Co., Commerce Hall, Atlanta, postpaid, SI.BO. A six weeks course at any standard summer school will automatically re new professional or first-grade certi ficates just a. l ! well as the reading course test, provided the teacher shows her certificate from the sum mer school authorities that she has completed three courses in education. ‘Very truly T. B. CONNF.R C. S. C., Montgomery County. f< ' . MRS. W. A. JONES ENTERTAINS CLUB. Mrs. W. A. Jones was hostess to the Bound Dozen Club last Saturday afternoon, the home being attractively decorated wth yellow daisies. Top score was made by Mrs. J. B. War then. During the afternoon a deli cious salad course was served. COMMISSIONERS T 8 POSTPONE ACTION AGAINST SHERIFF CULPEPPER— DECIDE TO GIVE SHERIFF MORE TIME TO STRAIGHTEN UP MAT TERS WITH THE COUNTY. Acting on instructions from the county commissioners, County Attor ney E. J. Giles did not file any pro ceedings seeking to oust Sheriff Cul i pepper before Judge K. N. Hardeman this week. At a special meeting of the commissioners held at the court house Monday, instructions being given Mr. Giles not to take any legal , proceedings at this time. According to Instructions from the commlsioners, Sheriff Culpepper will be given until the next regular meet • ing of the board, which will he hep’ the second Monday in June, to straigh ten up matters with the county, and in the event this is not done the com missioners state that possibly legai : action against the sheriff will be un ; dertaken later. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT IS FAVORER VIDALIA BOARD OF EDUCATION AND CITY AUTHORITIES BE LIEVE MOVE WILL BE BEST FOR THE SCHOOL. After spending two evenings with State Supervisor Smith, of Reidsville, going into the advantages of a con solidated school district for Vidalia, botli tiie members of the Vidalia board of education and the city coun cil believe such a plan will be for the best educational interest of this sec tion. At an early date petitions will be circulated seeking an expression from the people of the, city, and if the matter is approved by them Rep resentative Lankford will be asked to introduce a bill abolishing the Vida lia public school system and the coun ty board will then lay out a large district about Viddia. Now that counties are levying a county-wide tax for schools, a great many of the towns and cities of tilt state arc abolishing their independent systems and going hack in the cdunty system, thus making it possible ors a good sized district to be grouped about the cities as a center. These consolidated school districts have full control of their school, the selection of teachers, and the amount of tax to be levied. The Vidalia school is now badly crowded and if this plan is followed it would be possible for the consoli dated school district to vote bonds to build a thoroughly modern high school building. The school would then be in line to be named a coun ty high school, receiving aid from the state, and could also secure funds from the government under the Sniith- Hugcs bill, which would mean about a thousand dollars each year to the i support of the school. Tn addtion, all people living near Vidalia and in the new school district would have access , to the school on the same terms as , people in the city. Transportation would be provided by the county for pupils livipg a good distance from, the school. john dTanTcolon PHILLIPS SRRRENDER AFTER BEING AT LIBERTY FOR 3 MONTHS I*llll,l,ll’S BROTHERS DECIDE TO SURRENDER TO SHERIFF CULPEPPER. f * ! '" ~ . Sheriff Culpepper’s predicition that John D., Colon ami Willie Phillips, tried and convicted for the murder of Otis Holmes in the February term of Toombs Superior court and escaped immediately after they had been re turned to jail, would return after they had made their people a visit, came true in part last Tuesday when John D., and Colon gave themselves up to the authorities, Wil,lle Phillips however did not ap pear, which action on his part auto matically nullifies is motion for new trial and renders it impossible for him to appeal to higher courts for mercy. If at any time he L captur ed, which is very doubtful, the sen tence Imposed upon him in February will be executed. John D., and Colon Phillips had their hearing before Judge Hardeman Wednesday morning but wether or not they will be granted a new trial will not be kn >wn for some time. SPECIAL PRICES THIS WEEK. . On Fruit Jars, Caps, Fruit Jar Rub-- bers, Garden Hose, Pipe, Lawn Mow ers and Composition Roofing. VIDALIA HARDWARE CO. LOOK-REDUCED FARES. ___________ # Greatly reduced week-end round trip fares via Georgia & Florida Ry. good from Friday morning until the following Tuesday night. Consult nearest ticket agent. D. F. KIRKPATRICK, Gen. Pass. Agent.. NO. 3.