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| EVER BILIOUS ? |
(I Charleston, Miss.—Mrs. R. V. Heins, of this place,
M) says: “I have never had to use very much medicine, Uj
fk because if 1 felt headache, dizziness, or colds, bad taste fg|
in the mouth, which comes from torpid liver, I wou d Q I
Sm take a dose or more of Black-Draught, and it would
straighten me out and make me feel as good as new.
We have used in our family for years mi
" THEDFORD’S
Buck-draught
■ and it certainly is the best liver medicine 1 ever saw.
IT It has not only saved me money, it has helped keep my FT
U system in shape, and has never weakened me as so ill
many physics do. I recommend it to my friends and am Jl!
glad to do so.” Black-Draught is the old, reliable liver Uj
S§ medicine which you have doubtless heard much about. H
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l| taste in your mouth, bilious, or have a headache, try
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111 Always Insist on the Genuine! y
Opportuity Knocks
Opportunity’s knock mav l>c only a gentle tap, so
don’t wait, expecting opportunity to swat you on the
head with a club and then drag you to success.
Re ready. That’s the main thing. When the su
preme moment comes and opportunity taps at your
door, it is then that a bank account is doubly valuable.
Opportunity can’t do much for you if _>ou are not in a
position to help a little. We invite you to open an
account at our bank. ♦ Then we may be in a position
to give opportunity a tip to call around at your place.
Otherwise it would be time wasted.
THE CITIZENS BANK
OF VIDALIA
Vidalia, Georgia
At Last-A Real Pressing Club
Just opened under white man
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$2.50. Altering a specialty.
Our aim is to please you.
Our motto —‘‘Service."
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efit of our motto.
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At Rabun’s Barber Shop. Vidalia, Georgia
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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE, VIDALIA, GEORGIA.
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(Advertisement)
Georgia’s Industrial Development
baited By Socialistic Doctrine
Promoted By Atlanta Newspapers
Below is printed a letter from a
'progressive Georgia business man in
which he tells ot the changed atti
tude of Northern investors toward the
! pecan industry* because they “do not
want to put money in a state whose
capital is so tainted with Bolshevism’'.
What Mr. Perry says of the pecan
industry is equally true of every other
business. Money cannot be had in
Georgia to build Street Railways.
Power Plants or transmission lines
for the same reasons as are so plain
ly told you by Mi. Perry. Nobody
j wants to put money in a State whose
j capital is so tainted by Bolshevism.
No extensions of P.lectric transmis
sion lines, Street Railways or interur
ban Railways are possible unless new j
capital can be obtained for the costs |
of their construction and new capital
has been frightened away- iVom Geor
gia by the support given to , a few
socialists by Atlanta papers.
These men who are preaching pub
lic ownership are indifferent to the
damage they are doing to the State
of Georgia by killi-ig new enterprises.
They care nothing about the effects
lof their misrepresentations hut seek
; only political power. The same false
j hoods are being used in Georgia
! were used in Seattle to induce that
j city to Iniy its street railways, where
I in 21 months the street railways un
j der Muncipalj Management created a!
| deficit of $1,503,50u, and where the
| street Railway employees are now be
! ing paid by City warrants instead of
(Cash. It is just :i repetition in Geor
gia of the same tricks practised in
j Seattle where the public have been
j fooled by political adventurers into
| voting $15,000,000.00 ostensibly to ob-
I tain cheaper car fares but in reality
I to enable the politicians to play with
in City politics. Car fares have been
increased far beyond what the private
Company charged and the Seattle
taxpayers are out a million and half
dollars in 21 inon'hs. The Georgia
branch of the same brand of social
ists are asking for ten times as much
of your money for rimilar purposes.
“Hon. E. H. Griffin,
“Bainbridge, Georgia.
“Dear Sir:
“1 have noticed in the state press
that you are actively opposing the
propsed hills of the Municipal League
and I am taking the libery of ad
dressing ybu on this subject and,wish
ing you ‘Godspeed’ in this work.
“When these measures were first
proposed, they seemed very- fair, and
T was# inclined to tavor them, but as
1 made a deeper study of them, I
I found them to he very dangerous !
measures.
“If these hills become law. we could
have another era of ‘carpetbag’ bond
issues, that would bankrupt our en
tire state, and make it impossible for
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any one to interest outside capital in ,
helping us to develop our natural re
sources.
"1 am engaged ,i interesting east- j
cm capitalists in furnishing money
to help us develop ine pecan industry
in South Georgia 1 visit almost
every city in the not lit and east, and
j have presented our propsition sue- (
j cessfullv to the leading bankers and
I other monied men, and in every in
stance. one of the verv first ques
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jtions that is asked is, ‘what protec-
I tion do the Georgia laws give foreign
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capital?” Up until recently 1 have
been able to tell those men, convinc
ingly, that every branch of our state
government gave ample protection to
outside investors, but the recent ac
tivities of the Municipal League, and
the vicious attacks on the Railroad
Commission have been so well ad
vertised by the Atlanta papers, that 1
have found eastern capitalists very'
slow to furnish the money that is the
very life blood of my business.
“The Atlanta people and the At
lanta papers would resent the idea
that they have beet: doing great dam
age to the state a* a whole by their j
attacks on capital, and I will credit;
them with having done this ignorant
ly, and without intending the far
| reaching effects of their acts, but
they have given the state so much
adverse advertising, that I find my
business greatly affected, and the
eastern capitalists have frankly told
me that they do not care to put any
money in the state whose capial city
is so tainted with bolshevism.
"The leaders of the Municipal
League may mean well, but their
doctrine and their ideas do not ap
peal to the men to whom I have to
go for money to develop my business.
Those hard-headed business men arc
satisfied with a small rate of interest
but they demand complete safety of
| their investment, and insist that the
moral risk he reduced to the minimum.
“The Municipal »,eague may not
j know that there are in South Georgia
about sixty thousand acre? of mag
nificent pecan orchards, and that al
most every orchard has been financed
by northern men. The nut crop is
worth to Georgia about $2,000,000 an
nually!, which will largely increase
as tlie years go by, and piactically
every dollar of this is due either di
rectly or indirectly to the outside
money that made it possible to bring
these orchards to maturity.
“It may seem a far cry from 'water
power’ to ‘pecan oichards’, hut the
same type of men finance both, and
they have already become weary of
helping us to build cur pecan or
chards and frankly tell me they fear
for the safety of their investments, if
the enthusiastic dreamers of the Mu
nicipal League get control of our leg
islature .
“I have no personal or financial in
terest in any corporation in the state
except in certain pecan orchards in
Randolph. Calhoun Lee. Doughery,
and Mitchell counties.
“I have no interest or concern in
the Atlanta ‘gas rate’, nor do I care
in the least whether or not Atlanta
buys or makes her own power, but j
when self-seeking politicians would,)
with one hand tear down our consti
tutional limitation on taxation, while
with the other they wave the red
flag of socialism, then I feel that it
is time for the sober minded business
men of Georgia to get in the light
and sweep those fellows into the po
litical rubbish heap.
“Yon have my best wishes in your
manly fight against the nefarious
schemes of the Municipal League,
and I hope that yen will feel free to
call on me. if I car. assist you in any
way, not as a lawyer, but as a busi
ness man who is pioud of his native
state and proud of the part he has
taken in helping t •, build up some of
the waste places of South Georgia.
“Again assuring you of my inter
est. and with highest personal re- ;
gards and best wishes, I am.
“Yours \ery truly.
* “A. S. PERRY.’’
P. H. HASKINS HAS CAR
STOLEN SUNDAY NIGHT.
Another Eord automobile was stol
en Sunday night, the loss this time
falling on Mr. P. H. Haskins. No
insurance was carried and no trace
has been found of the car up to this
time alt ho police in all surrounding
towns have been notified of the dis
tinctive marks and the numbers.
This car should be easy to identify
as it had been in a wreck and the
front wheels had a bad case of wab
bles. The top wav also split and it
earned three old and one new tires.
BROKERAGE FIRM IS
ORGANIZED HERE
A new brokerage firm was orga
nized here this week, being compos-1
cd of Mr. T. \Y. Timmerman and
Mr. Venable Anderson, both well,
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! known in Vidalia. The firm will do|
a strictly commission and brokerage
business operating for the present in
the territory adjacent to Vidalia
Both members are good business
men and the firm will no doubt do!
a good business.
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Out of the
Frying Pan
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By JOHN B. OXFORD
(CopyrWbt.)
"There’s never any teltin' how far
your nerve will carry you until you
get into a tight place and give it a
good try.”
Leary—goodness only knows what
| his name may have been originally! —
tilted his stein and look a deep draft
before he continued.
“Take my own case, for instance.”
“ ’Twas this way,” Leary went on,
when the replenished steins were set
before us. "There was a dinky little
county fair back in a town among the
hil's, three years ago this fall, and as
I there didn’t seem to be nothin’ doin'
; just about then, I packed up a ’wheel
| of fortune’—one of them kind with a
concealed brake on it—and hiked it
to the hills. When 1 hit the town I
found I'd got the field pretty much
to myself, for tho only other thing in
the way of educatin’ entertainments
was two broken-down thimble-riggers
and a one-horse ring-’era-on outfit.
“First tiling when I struck the
grounds 1 fell in with a bewhiskered
limb of the law who was floatin’ round
dazed-like, with a big nickel ‘chief-of
police’ star on his coat-front.
“‘Fine weather,’ says 1, off’rin’ him
a cigar.
"‘Uncommon,’ says he, hitin’ off a
third of it and lightin' the wrong end.
“‘l’ve brought up a little show,'
says I. ‘lt's entertainin', harmless and
educational. 1 s’pose there’s no objec
tion to my setting up over by the
fence?’
“‘Well—er— * says he, his little eyes
narrowin’ in a try at bein’ shrewd
that was funny.
“’How much?’ says I. coinin’ to the
point at once.
‘‘‘l s’pose I ought to have about
twenty-five.’ says he. ’That's what
the other gents give me.'
“ Sure,’ says I, passin' out the stuff.
•It’s a pleasure to do business with
such an intelligent man.’
“Ami off lie goes. puffed up to near
tlie bustin' point.
"1 opened up business next door to
the thimble-riggers, and in ten minutes
I owned the crowd. Those other out
fits was bit by a drought immediately.
Would y’ believe it, most of the yaps
hadn't uever seen a wheel of fortune
before, and after the first four or five
of ’em bad won somethin' like fifty,
the rest fairly fell over one another
trvin’ to get a chance to have a whirl
at it.
“In an hour 1 took in a cool four
hundred. Then a yap who’d lost twen
ty dollars in one fling set up a yell of
‘Robber!’ and ‘Skin!’ The crowd took
ft up and began to shove in close,
lookin’ ugly. I tried my best to pacify
'em. hut it wasn’t no use.
“Right in the middle of the trouble
the chief of police come pushin’
through the crowd.
“‘What’s wrong here?’ says he, look
in’ like a villain in a melodrama with
! a bad attack of stage-fright.
“‘He's got our money with a skin
I game!’ yells one sucker.
‘“This here wheel is crooked !’ sings
1 out another.
“His Whiskers lays a hand on my
shoulder.
•* ‘See here.’ he says, throwin’ out
Ids chest most virtuous-like, ‘we can’t
have nothin’ of this kind goin’ on here.
You come with me!’ an’ he leads me
toward the gate. I kept mum till the
crowd'd all trailed off and we was
alone; then I turned on him.
“ ‘Look here,’ I says, ‘where do I
fit? D’yer think 1 coughed up to have
you buttin' in?’
“ ‘That crowd was gettin’ ugly,’ says
lie, sort of apologetic.
“ ‘Oh, stow it!’ says I. ‘l'll look
out for myself. I got to make ray ex
penses. ain’t I?’
“‘Well, what do you want to do?’
says he.
“‘l'll tell you.’ I says, droppin’ an
eyelid at him. ‘l’ll make it up on the
“dip.” What’s the matter with my
weedin’ out a few leathers, just to get
enough to get home on?’
“He springs his wise look on nie
again.
“‘l’ll have to have another twenty
five for that,’ says he.
“‘Sure, cull.’ says I.
“ ‘And if there is any trouble, I ain’t
responsible for none of the conse
quences,’ lie goes on. ‘They pretty
near killed a feller that got caught
pickin' pockets up here last year. If
there's any trouble, you’ll have to look
out for yourself.’
“ ‘That's all right.' says 1. ‘lt's time
enough to worry when the trouble Is
here.’ And I chuckled to myself, for
those yaps sure did look easy.
• "It was about four o'clock when the
crowd ami that jay cop between 'em
broke up my game, and at five a bal
loon ascension and a parachute drop
was goin' to lake place. Already the
balloon was filled and was swayin' to
and fro, lazy-like in an enclosure.
“Just as 1 squeezed near the rope«
a man shouted at the top of his voice j
that, owing to the extreme velocity of |
the wind the balloon ascension and |
parachute jump of the world-renowned |
Professor Angelone would have to be
postponed until the followin’ after
noon at four sharp.
i "While the crowd was growlin' its
I disapproval, my right hand was liftin’
the leather from the inside pocket of a
soher-lookin’ old codger beside me. It
j would have been a neat little job if
some one behind hadn’t butted against
I me and rammed iny hand into the old
! cirve’s ribs. He looked down quick
aud saw his leather leaviu' his pocket,
i! with my right hand attached to R.
"He grabbed me by the collar and
squealed Thief: Pickpocket!’ so loud
you could have beard him a mile,
j “I broke away from him, anil slip*
pin’ 'lie leather Into my own pocket,
tried to butt through the crowd to the
rope. 1 s’pose it was one of them
| times people call psychological mu*
ments. You see, the crowd was sore
’cause the balloon ascension lmd flz*
zled, and just the nnnute it was sorest
1 makes a mess of my little dip act,
which gives the push a good excuse
to get rid of their spite ou me.
“Say, when they closed on me, yellin
and eussin’, with the old buck scream
in’ ’Stop thief.” just behind me, they
didn’t look so dead easy as they had
an hour before when 1 first contem
plated workin’ the dip on them.
"It was up to me to do a hurried
fade away. I tripped up one man,
and gave two others the straight arm.
Then I jumped the rope and made for
that restless balloon, with the pack
yelpin’ close at my heels. An’ as 1
ran. n crazy scheme flashed into my
mind and I whipped out my knife and
opened the biggest blade
“Honest, to this day I don’t knew
how 1 had the nerve to do it, hut when
1 reached the balloon 1 jumped onto
the trapeze-bar, which was swingin’
low, and with one slash of the knife
I cut the moorin’ rope.
“Something gave me a fierce yank up
ward.
"Then I looked down.
“Holy smoke! Tiie fair ground,
the crowd, and the whole earth was
droppin’ away from me so fast my
heart stood still. I didn’t look down
again, but put all my effort in a des
perate attempt to stick to tlie liar. It
whipped about, and swayed and twist
ed, while that crazy old balloon laid
over in a fashion that made me shut
my eyes and bite my lips until I could
taste blood.
“I don’t know how long this lasted.
It seemed ages. But by and by we
musi have risen higher, for the balloon
righted itself and sailed along easy
and gentle as could be.
“After a long time I screwed up my
courage and looked down. Miles and
miles below me was the little old
earth, lookin like a kid’s toy village
laid out on a table. Then the sun
went down ami It grew cold.
"When I looked down next l could
see the toy village coinin’ tip. and I
knew we was sink in’. i honestly
h’lieve if I’d ’a’ known how to get that
parachute loose I’d done it an’ taken
my chances then an’ there As it was,
1 could only hold on with sbakin’ knees
and chatterin’ teeth, and hope the
earth wouldn’t hiss me too hard when
it got up to us.
"It grew dark fast now. and we must
have sunk iuto a layer of wind again,
for the balloon began to switch about
in scandalous fashion. Talk about
your buckin’ broncos! I felt as if I
could take my chances with any of
’em after that. We went lower still,
until we was Just clearin’ the tops of
the trees. All at once I noticed on the
spread-bar above my head a coll of
rope and a dinky little grapplin’ an
chor. Five times I tried before I had
the nerve to reach with one hand and
loosen that coil of rope.
“When finally 1 did get it loose and
drop the anchor we was tearin’ along
above a stretch of pine woods, and
just as 1 let go the anchor we came
upon a clearin’ all lighted up with
gasoline torches. All around was
rows of benches with a lot of people
on them, listenin' to a tall man wh»
was wavin’ his arms and bellowin' a
hymn. Say. I’d never been to a camp
meetin' in my life, but I knew- one
soon’s I spotted it.
“I let out a yell as the anchor
caught beneath the rear seat, ripped it
up, and spilled three good sisters into
a promiscuous heap. The hymn
stopped sudden. There was veils and
bawls. Then that meetin’ scattered’s
if a cyclone had struck it.
“Everybody seemed to lose his head
'cept the tall man, and he made one
dive for tiie anchor rope and hung on
for dear life.
“ ‘Keep hold!' 1 yelled. ‘Keep hold!
Don’t let tne loose!'
“And that old psalm-singer was
(lead-game. He got hoisted up, banged
into trees, dragged through under
brush. but still he bung on. yellin’ to
the others to come and help hint, and
callin’ 'em all sorts of variations ou
white-livered and chicken-hearted.
“Well, after a Hit some fifteen or
twenty of ’em got hold of the rope
with him and managed to pull me
down to earth.
“Say, I couldn’t believe it was true
when 1 found solid ground beneath
me once more. 1 was near crazy with
joy. I was laughin’ and eussin’ all at
once, and between times I was slappin’
the tali cove on the back and fellin’
him what a dead-game sport lie was.
Then 1 {Hilled out my roll —every last
dollar of it.
" ‘Has tiie collection been took?' says
1 ’Because If it hasn’t, I want to put
this in for me.'
'You should ’a’ seen their eyes stick
out! There was somethin’ like five
hundred in the wad. 1 was it, after
that, all rigid.
"But by and by I calmed down
enough to find out tiie way to the
nearest railway station, and while they
j were settlin down to their cantp
i Hug business again I managed to
| sneak off through tiie woods.
"When at last l hit the road I took
out the wallet I’d lifted from the olf.
chap back at the fair grounds. It was
good and fat. and I chuckled as I
struck a match to see what was iu it.
And say. what do you think was in it?
A hunch of receipted tax hills, two
tin-types and one of those big. old
fashioned copper cents with a hole in
it. Not another thing 1 swear.
“If there had been. I wouldn’t a’
been lame for a month from rhhn’
home on the bumpers.