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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XIX
PRIMITIVE CONFERENCE
ISjNVITED HERE
BIBLE CONFERENCE FOR STATE
WOULD BRING MANY DELE
GATES TO THIS CITY.
Acting' on behalf of the Vidalia
Primitive Baptist church, Rev. T. E-
Sikes has invited the Annual Bible
Conference of the Georgia Primitive
Baptists to hold Us next session in
Vidalia. The confluence will be held
next August or September and there
will be over 100 delegates and visi
tors in attendance.
The decision as to where the next
conference will be held will be made
in the next few weeks by a special
committee, of which Mr. Sikes is a
member.
The people of Vidalia are hopeful
that this city will be selected for the
site of the conference.
HEATH AND BANKS SHOW
PICTURE IN MANY TOWNS
Messrs. Heath and Banks, who
have she Southern rights for the
beautiful Indian picture, “The Daugh
ter of Dawn,” are showing their pic
ture in many South Georgia town-
Arrangements have already been
made for running the picture at Mil
ieu, Claxton, Swainsboro and Dulu
lin and these gentlemen are now on
the road booking the picture for
future dates.
BAPTIST CHURCH SERVICES
M usic for Sunday morning:
Offertory— Prelude —Bach.
Solo, A Song of Confidence—Briggs
-—Miss Willie Bomar.
M orning sermon; Subject: Enlarge
ment in our work for Christ. 1
Evening:
Offertory—Allegro agitato—Czerny
Quartet —Selected —Messrs. Mac-
Donald, Turner, Phillips, Walker.
HymnS to be" arranged.
Evangelistic ser\ ice.
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
THE FORD COUPE
! More and more this tine enclosed car for two —but it will carry three is
growing in popular demand. Strongly built, the body rests upon that marvelous
Ford chassis. It brings to its owner every modern-day convenience; easy rid
ing—while sliding plate glass windows make it breezy and cool in hot weather ;
dust proof and water proof, when the windows are closed, it is cozy and comfort
able in inclement and wintry weather. Then there is the durability' of the car,
coupled with the low economy of first cost and the saving of money in operat
ing - expense. Behind it, and every other Ford car. is that unsurpassed “Ford
■ After-Service” which is given by the army of Ford dealers scattered all over the
country, together with some 15,000 authorized garages, until the Ford owner is
always within immediate touch of dependable, reliable service, wher the genu
in emade Ford parts, and the genuine Ford methods are applied in the care of
this car. The Ford Coupe ministers toa great variety of owne r s. from the phy
sician to the traveling man. from the engineer to the architect, and then tor the f
pleasure car for two it is unbeatable. We ask your early order it you want a
Ford Coupe, because \ve want to make delivery as quickly rtss we can, but we
must have a little time. Come in and talk ii. over with us.
STRICKLAND MOTOR CO.
Authorized Ford Dealers '
PHONE 242 VIDALIA. CA.
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VIDALIA TO HAVE
MIS CLOD
EASTMAN CLUB STANDS SPON
SOR FOR ORGANIZATION HERE
—OFFICERS ARE NAMED.
With this city recoinmedned tor a
Kiwanis Club by officers of the nat
ional organization and with the East
man Kiwanis Club standing sponsor
for a club here, temporary organiza
tion of the Vidalia Kiwanis Club was
perfected last Wednesday evening at
a small gathering of local citizens at
the New Vidalia Hotel.'
Judge W. C. Griffin, of Eastman,
'who has interested himself in the or
ganization of Kiwanis Club here,
; was the guest of honor at tne meet
, ign, and following a delicious supper,
explained the purposes and objects
of the Kiwanis (We Build) organi
j zation and offered his services to
i ward the organization of the club
ihere. He stated that there had been
a preliminary survey of Vidalia and
‘ surrounding territory, which had
been found fully satisfactory and
I that the Eastman club had been ask
led to sponsor the club here. A Ki
j wan is club, he explained, is an organi
sation of business men, featuring
good fellowship and striving to be of
genuine service in the upbuilding and
progress of their home town.
Following his talk, application for
a charter for Vidalia was signed by
those present and the following tem
porary officers were elected :W. D.
DeEoach, president; Ben Pope Jack
son, vice-president, Royal Page, sec
retary and W. A. Jones, treasurer.
As soon as the charter is granted by
the national officers, a permanent
organization will be perfected.
Present to mee( Judge Griffin and
enrolled as charter members were J.
E. Strickland, J. W. Dale, J. T. Ragan,
W. J. DeLoach, Royal Page. T. W.
Timmerman, J C. Timmerman, F. C.
Or m berg, B. P, Jackson, D, JJ. Pal lie
TT J. R. WartheiV. jf. it. Schiimpert
and W. A Jones.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920
Finds Pigs and 801 l
Weevil Profitable
A few days ago Mr. C. C. French,
Industrial Agent for the Ft. Worth
Stock 'l ards, was in my office and
presented the following clipping from
a live stock journal:
“Comanche, Texas, September 7. —
This section has one farmer who not
only has no fear ol the boll weevil,
but actually turns it to an advant
age. His name is W. B. Sterling and
be lives near Blanket, aljout ten
miles southwest of Comanche. He
says he has now about a half bale of
cotton to the acre matured, with
good prospects for continued maturi
ty. He lias his farm fenced into sub
divisions with hog-prooi fences. As
soon as the boll weevil begins to
make its appearance he turns his
hogs into the cotton field. He has
about 30 to 35 head of pigs big enough
to eat and range, and these pigs
gather every fallen form punctured
by the weevil and knocks off the
punctuerd forms which still adhere
to the stalk. They actually fatten on
the larvae thus devorued and seem
to be specially fond of the combined
vegetable and animal diet.
“In addition to destroying the en
tire weevil crop, they also loosen up
the soil without the slightest damage
to the plant in their rigid cleaning
up of the fallen forms. Fields ad
joining or adjacent to his farm, where
no hogs have been ranged, will not
make cotton enough to pay for the
picking. (Mr. Sterling is well known
as a man of the highest veracity and
integrity and his statement may be
absolutely depended upon as true.)”
In discussing the matter with Mr.
French he decided to make the trip
to Blanket immediately for the pur
pose of checking up the story, and as
Spring Term Os School
Wilt Open Monday
The spring of the Yidalia public
School will open Monday morning
and Superintendent Downs hopes
that every pupil and teacher will be
in their place ready for hard work for
the spring. Indications now point to
a splendid attendance and with the
wrok of all the different departments
well organized one ot the best terms
in the history of the school is ex
pected.
Prof. Downs will he in his office at
the school building on Saturday, Jan.
Official Organ City of Vidalia
ter making a thorough investigation
on September 27th he reports the
conditions he found somewhat as fol
lows: In an adjoining field consist
ing of 12 acres from 85 to 90 per cent
of the bolls were punctured and the
entire twelve acres would not make
more than two bales of cotton. On
the experimental plot of 23 acres
where the hogs were allowed to range
the cotton will make a half bale to
the acre and probably more. Mr.
French states that he took up one
stalk of cotton with 52 bolls, none
of whiefc were punctured. The herd
of hogs consists ot 3 sows, 6 gilts and
14 pigs. They have been running
in the patch ever since the first punc
tured forms have fallen.
As a further evidence of the value
of the pigs running in the cotton
field, Mr. French found that where
the pigs slept at night near tne barn
and their watering pace, there were
practicaly no punctured bolls; but in
remote jx'fts of the field where the
pigs range less frequently the punc
tures wore more numerous. The cot
ton was in no way damaged by the
hogs. Mr. Sterling has been con
ducting this experiment for the past
six years, and has found that it has
given him uniform results every year.
I am passing this information on to
members of the Better Secretaries’
Club for I believe it is a momentous
discovery due to the fact that it is a
very hard task to produce hogs at
a profitabe price and cotton under
boll weevil conditions.
I havp made arrangements with
two reliable farmers to conduct this
experiment to determine its value in
this section. —M . E. Melton in Far
mer and, Stockman.
1 1st, and patrons are requested to
‘send there for entrance cards. It is
hoped that all patrons will attend to
this matter aturday so that there
will be no interruption in the school
work Monday m ruing.
NEW TRAiThAS BEEN
GRANTED IB LEE CIiRRY
WAS UNDER DEATH SENTENCE
FOR THE MURDER OF BURLEY
PHILLIPS LAST SPRING.
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i Under a ruling passed by Judge R.
jN. Hardeman of the Superior Court
of Toombs county, Lee Curry, under
; sentence of death for murder, has
been granted a new trial, after a mo
tion to that effect had been filed by
David S. Atkinson and Lawrence &
Abrahams, attorneys for the pris
oner.
Curry, who is now confined in the
Chatham county jail, was convicted
last August of the murder of Burley
Phillips, a prominent young man of
Toombs county. Owing to the high
feeling in Toombs county at the, 1
time, the prisoner was brought to
Chatham county.
The prisoner claimed at the trial
that he had been forced to kill Mr.
Phillips in self-defense, when they
were out riding together in an au
tomobile. —Savannah News.
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DR. MERCER GLAD IT
RAINED SUNDAY NIGHT, j
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That heavy rain Sunday night may
not j<ave been appreciated by a ma
jority of our citizens, but Dr. J. li.
Mercer is very thankful over the fact
that it rained in torrents and that as
a result the roads were slippery and
dangerous.
The reason is that sometime Sun
day night thieves entered the garage
at the Yidalia Hospital and stole the
doctor's Ford Coupe. The car was
later found out at the G. &■ i‘. Ky.
crossing, where the thieves had got
ten into a flitch and had been forced
to abandon the car.
Mr. Carl Jones, of Nunez, was in
Yidalia Sunday.
SALE OF PURE BRED
HOGS MARI m
Richmond & McArthur sale
AT AILEY WILL ATTRACT A
LARGE CROWD OF FARMERS.
Friday, January 7th, beginning at
1:00 o’clock, Richmond & McArthur
of Ailey will sell at auction 42 pure
bred Duroc hogs and it is expected
that a large number of farmers from
Toombs county will attend the sale.
The sale will be preceded by a barbe
cue and a band will dispense music
during the day.
H. L. Inglehart, of Elizabethtown,
Ky., and Co], Hengst, of Louisville,
will act as auctioneers. Mr. Robt.
J. Evans, secretary o.f the American
Duroc Association, is expected to be
present at the sale.
Advises Farmers to Buy Hogs.
Mr. T. Y. Williford, County Agent
for Toontbs county, advises farmers
to attend the sale. Discussing this
he says:
"I would call the attention of the
farmers to the big hog sales the last
of this week and all of next week in
Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.
Especially do weS want the farme
of Toombs county to take advantage
of the sale at Alley on January 7th,
when Mr. McArthur sells 42 head
of fine Durocs. This is a bred gilt
and sow sale of the best individuals
and blood lines that the world can
boast, and they will be sold so you
can afford to buy some of them.
We do not believe there will come
a time in the next ten years when
it will be as profitable to buy some
real good pujre bred bogs. Prices
aer low just at this time, due to
temporary depressed business in other
lines, and you can buy hogs at a
bargain. By all means attend this
sale. It will be the best day you have
spent in twelve months.”
CARD OF THANKS
The brothers and sisters of Mr. t.
C. Smith desire to take this method
of expressing their deep appreciation
to friends for kindnesses shown them
following his death. They also wish
to thank Dr. Franklin, of Swains
horn, for untiring services.
BURGLARS MAKE HAUL ON
TWO VIDALIA FIRMS.
Sunday night burglars broke into
the store of the Yidalia Pharmacy
and made away with a considerable
quantity of jewelry. The same night
the office of the Vidalia Ice & Coal
Co. was entered and the cash regis
ter robbed of a number of checks
and some money.
Up to this time there has been no
clue to the thieves discovered.
SEASONABLE I
SUGGESTIONS I
Express Wagons
Pocket Cutlery
Table Cutlery
W Sausage Mills
Velocipedes
O Lard Cans ®
Q Heaters Q I
< Glass 2
-I Etc.
Prices to suit the times.
Quality right.
Lee Hardware Comp’y
Telephone No. 16
NUMBER 2
C. C. SMITH (HIES
IN IM ACCIDENT
BUGGY IN WHICH HE WAS DRIV
ING STRUCK BY CAR NEAR
SWAINS BORO.
C. C. Smith, a well-known business
man of Lyons, died Sunday night at
the Franklin Sanitarium near Swins
boro, as the result of injuries receiv
ed late Friday evening when the
buggy in which he was riding was
struck by a Hudson touring car driven
by R. B. Williams, of Dublin. Mr.
Smith suffered a fractured skuil and
though carried promptly to the Sana
tarium and given tile best medical
attention, never regained conscious
ness.
At the time of the accident Mr.
Smith was accompanied by his son
in-law, Walter Stephens, Mr.
Stephens having his face and legs
badly bruised, hut iiis injuries not be
ing serious. The occupants of the
automobile, R. B. Williams, helix
Williams. Messrs, Edenfield and
Ellington all escaped with but slight
bruises.
The acident happened about two
and a half miles from Swainsboro.
As the car approached the buggy, it
is said the driver .ost control of the
car, Ihe auto striking the left front
wheel of the buggy, splitting the
buggy in two. The car crashed
through the buggy and headed into
a deep ditch on the side of the road.
The remains of Mr. Smith were
brought to Vidalia and funeral ser
vices were held 1 lesdav from the
residence of his sister, Mrs. Wynn,
being conducted by Rev. Dan Walker.
The interment followed at the Pine
Crest cemetery.
Mr. Smith was On years of age and
is survived by five brothers, S. M.,
E. W„ J. A., M. H. and Gordon Smith,
of \Vrightsx ille, three sisters, Mrs. 1.
i. Brantley, of Savannah, Mrs. J. F.
Bi-finflcyY of Harrison. Mrs.' B. C.
Wynn, of Vidalia. .ltd two daughters,
Mrs. Walter Stephens, of Kibbee and
Mrs. P. D. Scott, or Uvalda. |
MRS. CHESS ABERNATHY
COMPLIMENTS VISITOR.
Mrs. Chess Abernathy entertain
ed Wednesday night in honor of her
visitor. Miss Mary Knox Henderson,
of Savannah. The home was very
attractive with holiday decorations.
Rook was played during the evening,
following which dainty refreshments
•re served.
Those present were Misses Sarah
Smith, Claudia Stith, Gertrude Stith,
Tommy Belle Coleman, Henderson ;
Messrs. Leon Oliver, Dalton, Stith,
Venable Anderson, Leighton Tillman,
Hal Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Aber
nathy.