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VOL. XXXVI
BOLES ME FIXED FOR
■GRES. PRIMARY
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF
TWELFTH CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT MET IN DUBLIN ON
WEDNESDAY—MAKE PLANS.
Following the call of W. J. De-
Loach of Vidalia, Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee for
the Twelfth Congressional District,
a meeting of the committee was held
in Dublin Wednesday and rules and
regulations for the primary to select
a nominee for congress were adopted.
The committee set the primary for
September 13th, the same date as the
state primary.
Although he has made no formal
rinnouncement, it is understood that
Congressman W. W. Larsen will be
a candidate for re-election, and it is
probable that he will have no oppo
sition.
The primary rules are as follows :
Be it resolved by the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Twelfth
Congressional District of Georgia, in
convention assembled at Dublin, Ga.,
Ju 7th, 1922, that:
1. A primary election shall be held
in each of the counties comprising
the Twelfth Congressional District of
Georgia, on September 13th, 1922, for
the purpose of selectng a Democratic
candidate for Representative from
said State in the sixty-eighth Congress
of the United States.
2. The rules and regulations pro
mulgated by the State Democratic
Executive Committee for holding of
primary election for selection of
Governor and State-house officials
shall, so far as applicable, govern
the Congressional primary in said
district, and all persons qualified to
vote in said State primary shall be
eligible to vote for Democratic candi
dates for Congress.
3. All candidates for Congress shall
deliver to Hon. C. H. Thompson,
Swainsboro, Ga., on or before 12 ;C0
o’clock midnight of July Ist, 1922, be
mg the date fixed by the said State
Committee for closing entrance as to
candidates for Governor and other
State officials, the sum of two hun
dred and fifty dollars as an entrance
assessment fee, and shall signify in
writing his intention to become a can
didate for Congress, subject to the
rules and regulations of the forth
coming primary. Two hundred and
fifty dollars of said amount, the same
being equal to the sum assessed by the
State Executive Committee for can
didates for Governor and U. S. Sen
ators, shall be paid by the said Sec
retary to the proper authorities des
ignated by the Democratic Executive
Committee of the respective counties
in said district, and shall be by him
prorated, among such authorities, so
far as practicable, in proportion to
the registered voters of said counties,
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* Chickens, hens, per pound 21c 4
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4 Green Salt Hides, per pound 9c £
* Green Hides, per pound ||
* Dry Flint Hides, per pound 11c
T Clear White Wool, per pound 25c $
* Wax, per pound 20c 1
% Tallow, per pound 6c *
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TOBACCO BOYERS j
HIDE TIRE
BETWEEN VIDALIA AND HA2LE
HURST THIS YEAR, OWING TO
THE SHORT CROP MADE IN
THIS TERRITORY.
According to the suggestion made
by J. W. Warren, who will probably
have charge of the tobacco ware
houses at Vidalia and Hazlehurst this
year, it is thought that each of these
warehouses will be open three days
each week during the tobacco season,
thus making it possible for one rep
resentative ( from each company to
cover, these two points. The tobacco
crop in this section is short this year
and it is felt that this arrangement
is the best one to be made and that
it will insure a good number of buy
ers at both Vidalia and Hazlehurst.
Mr. Warren has written officials of
the Vidalia Tobacco Warehouse Co.
that indications are for a much bet
ter price for tobacco this year, and
growers are urged to cure their to
bacco carefully so as to be able to
obtain advantage of the good prices
that will be paid for tobacco of a
good grade.
HOG SALE AT AILEY
POSTPONED TO JULY
COUNTY AGENT TYRE ANNOUN
CES POSTPONEMENT AFTER
CONSULTATION WITH FARM
ERS OF MONTGOMERY.
The co-operative hog sale announ
ced for June 15th at Ailey has been
postponed until July. This announce
ment ttvas made by County Agent
Tyre of Montgomery county Tuesday.
While there have been a good num
ber of hogs listed for the sale, many
of them are not in the best of con
dition and Mr. Tyre felt there would
be a large number of hogs which
would grade as No. threes and fours,
and that on this account it would be
advisable to postpone the sale till a
later date.
Announcement of the exjact 'date
of the sale will be made later.
STYLISH HATS FOR ONE CENT.
Mrs. J. E. Thompson, milliner, of
Vidalia, is now selling stylish, up-to
date hats for one cent during her
stock reduction sale. Buy one hat
at regular price, and for one cent you
can secure another hat of the same
value. It willpay you to visit her
store while this great sale is on.
—Page’s Drug Store —the poor man’s
friend.
MT. VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1922.
j District Conference
Will Meet In Vidalia
METHODISTS OF McRAE DIS-|
TRICT HOLD ANNUAL CONFER
ENCE BEGINNING TUESDAY,
JUNE 13 LARGE NUMBER OF
DELEGATES EXPECTED.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist charges in the Mcßae District
will be held at Vidalia beginning on
Tuesday, June 13th, and lasting thru
Thursday, the 15th. About one hun
dred and twenty delegates and visi
tors are expected to attend the con
ference.
The conference will open Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, the main work
Tuesday afternoon being the assign
ment of the delegates to homes and
the organization of the conference for
the busy days of Wednesday and
Thursday. Wednesday and Thursday
morning and afternoon sessions will
be held, Rev. J. M. Outler, the pre
siding elder of the district, presiding
at the different sessions. Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings services will
be held at the church, at which the
delegates at the conference and the
people of Vidalia will have the oppor
tunity of hearing some of the best
known ministers of the district.
The Mcßae district contains twenty
seven pastoral charges, and every
church will be represented. Under
the superintendency of Mr. Outler,
the work of the district is in splen
did shape and the reports from the
different charges will show that ex
cellent work is being accomplished
in all the charges.
GIRL SCOUTS LEFT MONDAY
FOR CAMP AT HOUSTON
Thirty-two members of t’
Girl Scout troop left Monday morn
ing over the M. D. S. railway for
Houston Factory, where a week’s
camp will be enjoyed. The scouts
were all in high spirit and were an
ticipating one of the happiest weeks
they have ever spent. They are ac
companied by a number of members
of the school faculty who have been
assisting in the scout work at Vidalia
the past year.
Superintendent W. L. Downs will
be at the camp during the week, hav
ing gone on ahead to get everything
in readiness for the arrival of the
scouts.
The local boy scouts will aslo en-
: oy a camp at Houston Factory for
a week during the latter part of July.
CSPlir BEDMARV
ID BEjBBVEIED
MONTGOMERY COUNTY WILL
JOIN WITH TOOMBS IN MARK
ING LINE BETWEEN THE TWO
COUNTIES IN NEAR FUTURE.
Acting on the request from Tax Re
ceiver W. C. Mason of Toombs coun
ty, who explained that many people
living near the boundary between the
two counties were escaping the pay
ment of taxes, the county commis
sioners of Montgomery county at the
regular meeting at Mt. Vernon Tues
day voted to join with the authori
ties of Toombs in having a survey |
made of the line betwee the twoi
counties. Representatives of the two i
counties will confer at an early date'
and arrangements will be made for'
the survey.
The communication of Mr. Mason
to the Montgomery county authori
ties stated that both counies were
'osing considerable revenue owing o
the fact that the county line was not
definitely marked, the Toombs au
thorities being told fby certain tax
payers that they paid taxes in Mont
gomery county, and the Montgomery
authorities being led to believe that
‘axes were being paid in Toombs
To put an end to this practice and tc
make it possible for each county to
receive the revenue to which it is en
titled, both counties feel it advisable
to have the boundary line clearly
marekd and estabrtahed.
RUUD OFFICIALS
HAKEJG SAVING
EFFORT TO REDUCE FREIGHT
CLAIMS RESULTS IN ANNUAL
SAVING TO THE SEABOARD OF
ABOUT $600,000.00.
Working for the past six months,
along with other railroad lines in the
United States, in an effort to reduce
the enormous losses each year sus
tained by the railroads in money
paid out in freght claims, officials of
the Seaboard Railway have in the
first six months that the campaign
has been in force reduced freight
claims practically 60 per cent. As
freight claims filed with the Seaboard
have in the past totalled- about one
million dollars a year, employees of
the road feel that the campaign has
resulted in a clear saving of about
S6OO,(HX) per annum to their road.
The c. n.paign was begun about six
months ago, and all agents, traffic
and operating officials were enlisted
in the effort to reduce the heavy ex
pense put on the railroad by careless
packing of freight shipments and by
.careless handling. The campaign
to secure proper packng for all freight
shipments received the hearty co-op
cration of the public, and railroad
employees in all departments became
interested in seeing that all freight
was carefully and expeditiously han
dled. The result has seen the total
of claims filed with the Seaboard offi
cials tumble at a gratifying rate.
Freight claims arise and are filed
with the railroad officials through
delay in handling of freight, through
loss or damage, and have in years
past proved a heavy drain on the
railroads of the country and a big
item in their operating expense.
With every employee on the alert
to see that freight shipments, when
received, are properly packed, and
making every effort to handle freight
for the Seaboard without damage, a
most gratifying showing has been
made-, and the savng can be passed
on to the shippers in the way of re
duced rates.
GEO. W. LANKFORD
FOR STATE SENATE
AFTER SERVING IN THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR SIX
YEARS COE. LANKFORD DESIRES
TO GO TO THE SENATE.
.Col. G. W. Lankford stated last
Tuesday that his announcement for
the State Senate in opposition to any
one who desires to make the race
would probably appear in next weeks
issue of the Progress.
The many friends of Col. Lankford
in this district and all over the state
will be glad to know that he has de
, cided to make the race. He Is a
| prominent attorney and is well known
i and regarded as one of the ablest
lawyers in the state.
Col. Lankford has served in the
i house of representatives for six years
! and has done some wonderful things
for Toombs citizens as well as others
in this district. He has made a fine
record in the lower house and will
do the same thing in the senate.
—Lyons Progress.
OLIVER-MORRIS.
Saturday afternoon at Lyons was
solemnized the marriage of Miss Lucy
Mae Oliver, for the past year one of
the popular employees of the Vklali.i
telephone office, and Mr. Hines Mor
ris, of Lakeland, Fla.
Mr. Morris and his bride left Sun
day for Lakeland, where they will
make their home.
PECAN CROP WILL BE
SHORT COMING SEASON
GROWERS WHO HAVE EXAMIN
ED GROVES STATE NOT MORE
THAN HALF A CROP WILL BE
MADE THIS YEAR.
Pecan growers in this section who
have examined their groves this sea
son state that the crop the coming
fall will be short and that not more
than a half crop will be made. While
the pecan yield is rarely a total fail
ure, the crop has its good years and
bad years, and with a full crop being
made last year, the growers naturally I
expected a lighter yield this year.
Dr. J. W. Palmer, one of the suc
cessful pecan growers of Montgom
ery county, stated Tuesday that he
had made a thorough examination of
his orchards and did not believe the
yield this fall would be more than
fifty per cent of a full crop.
The short crop this year will be a
benefit to growers who refused to
sell the crop last year at the price
offered and who have been holding
for better prices, and will also mean
a good price for nuts the coming
fall.
FEE CURRIE TO BE
IBIID BEIT WEEK!
I
JUDGE HARDEMAN MAKES AN-j
NOUNCEMENT THAT PEOPLE
WILL NOT BE BURDENED
WITH WEEK’S COURT.
Due to the unfavorable weather
conditions which have confronted the
farmers of this section for the past
two weeks, and the desire not to
take them away from their crops at
a critical time, Judge R. N. Harde
man has announced that onlly the
case of Lee Currie, charged with
murder, will be tried in the Toombs
superior court next week-
All jurors summoned are required
to attend, but Judge Hardeman states
that as soon as the jury for the
Currie case can be impanelled, all
parties except witnesses in this case
will be excused for the week.
The Currie case is the only jail
case pending at this time and there
will be no financial loss to the coun
ty in having all the bond cases go
over until the August term of the
court.
I MONTGOMERY COUNTY HAS
WOUND UP THE 1921 TAXES
With sales Tuesday of a number of
pieces of property levied on and sold
to secure collection of state and coun
ity taxes for the year 1921, Montgom
ery county wound up collection of
all taxes due for last year.
Levies for this month were made
on forty pieces of property, twenty
one of the taxpayers making settle
ment during last month or on Tues
day. Nineteen pieces were sold at
auction and bid in by the county.
Property owners will have one year
in which to redeem their property by
paying the amount of the fi fas and
all expenses, including interest, after
which time title will vest in the coun
ty if not redeemed.
THREE DERAILMENTS TIE
UP M. D. & S. TRAFFIC
Three derailments of freight ca'-
on the line of the M. D. & S. Rail
way the past week tied tip traffic to
a considerable extent and delayed
both passenger and freight service on
that road.
As railroad men are superstitious
in the matter of believing wreck:,
always come in groups of three, all
employees of the road are feeling
easier now and are confident there
will be no further, interruption in the
service for some time to come.
—LOST—On Church street, part of
silver pencil, engraved with initials
I 'A. M. H.” Finder please retu n to
Miss Allie Mae Haynes.
10 SHOW BENEFITS OF
CALCIUM ARSENATE
THREE DEMONSTRATION PLATS
TO BE USED IN MONTGOMERY
COUNTY BY COUNTY AGENT
GOOD CLUB ENROLLMENT.
Fo r the purpose of showing the
farmers of this section that the use
of calcium arsenate is a great aid in
growing cotton under boll weevil
conditions, County Agent Tyre of
Montgomery county is conducting
tests in three different sections of the
county. Three plats of three acres
| each have been selected in different
t sections of the coifnty and the plants
will lie dusted with calcium arsenate
according to the regulations prescrib
ed by the United States department
of agriculture. A record of costs
will be kept anti as cotton in the same
fields will not be treated the end of
the season will demonstrate the ad
vantages of the use of calcium arse
nate in fighting the weevil.
The test fields are located on the
farms of B. A. Conner at Higgs ton,
D. A. Mcßae on route one, and F.
M. Mcßae on route 2 out of Mount
Vernon.
Up to the present time only the
field of B. A. Conner has been dust
ed, weevils having not appeared in
the other fields to such an extent as
jto make dusting advisable. The gov
j ernment plans call for four applica
l tions of arsenate four days apart,,
with other applications to be given
j if infestation is very heavy.
The farmers in this section will
watch the tests with a great deal of
interest.
Fine Club Enrollment.
Although he has been on the job
but a few months, County Agent Tyre
has been pushing the club work in
: the county and has enrolled 132 boys
in pig clubs, and with two girls who
> have joined in the work, has 134 en
listed. Most of the club members
are fattening hogs for the September
market, hut a few of the members
are making the breeding test.
KIBBEE BOY GETS COM
MISSION IN RESERVE CORPS
Atlanta.—ls. J. O’Conner of Kib
bee, a student at the Georgia School
of Technology, has been awarded a
I commission in the army reserve corps,
in recognition of the high fpiality. of
his work in the Tech K. O. T. C.
, His commission is as second lieuten
ant ill the motor transport, all of the
commissions awarded to student offi
cers being as second lieutenants.
Many of the student officers trained
in the Tech R. O. T. C. have been
able to win promotions to higher
rank l>y reason of the thorough train
ing given in the Tech regiment. The-
Tech R. O. T. C. is officially rated/
one of the best in the South and
gives training to reserve corps com
missions in many branches of the
service.
Mr. O’Conner is the eldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. O'Conner of
Kibbee, and many friend* throughout
this section will be interested in his.
successful college career and the
compliment following his work as a
student in Georgia Tech, where he
proved a very popular man. ,■
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AILEY FARMERS SHIP TWO
CARS OF IRISH POTATOES
A number of farmers in the Ailey
section who tried the Irish potato
crop this spring marketed tw<* cars,
receiving a fairly satisfaction price.
Ihe season this spring wa- tot sal
isfactory and the crop was miadt
under adverse conditions, and was
not as remunerative as the growers
had hoped for. However, it is prob
able that a good acreage will be put
in again next year in this crop.
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SOUTH GEORGIA HONEY
GOES TO NORTH CAROLINA
Rev. I M. Baldwin, who has
large colonies of bees near Mt'. Ver
non, this week shipped 320 pounds of
- honey to points in North Carolina,
i Fifteen cents per pound was the price
, received for the honey.
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