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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, (Continued on last page) ‘t**.*-»*-:* ****:**•--I 4 *l**•***'*!**i**»-*J*X*-!**J.vv•*--***!**,*v-I-**- *,“C*%* -I--I- v | Ship Your Produce Direct j * Chickens, friers, per pound 38c 4 * Chickens, hens, per pound 21c 4 •;* Chickens, roosters, per pound 12c * t Eggs, per dozen 25c * 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 * <*. Honey, per gallon 50c * t . t •i- We handle everything grown on the farm. £ ! CATTLE AND HOGS IN CAR LOTS ! * ..... i J A trial shipment will convince you it pays. <• 1 GEORGIA COMMISSION CO. § f t X 29 Jefferson Street Phone No. 151 * * SAVANNAH, GEORGIA % v «5• ■' »#&>, A » 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. ,■ • « Vi- m • K 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. •U- ' 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. NO. 5.