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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE VOLUME XIX THIEVING GANG HAS BEEN BROKEN UP COUNTY OFFICERS MAKE NUM BER OF ARRESTS AND IT IS THOUGHT MEN GUILTY OF NUMEROUS BURGLARIES. With the arrest last Wednesday of Dan Wilkes, of the Tiger creek neigh' borhood, by Officers Mallard and Fields, and the finding of a large quantity of stolen goods in his home, followed later in the week by the arrests of Duber Williamson, Aleck Blaxton, Mitcham and Fes tus Williamson, and the finding of other stolen goods, county officers believe they have broken up the gang which they think is respon sible for a large number of burgla ries-in Vidalia during the past sev eral months. All the men arrested are now in pail at Lyons and will be tried at the August term of the Superior Court. For several months past there have been a number of burglaries in Vidalia, stores being groken into, cars entered and tires and other ar ticles of value taken from cars that were parked in the streets, and the county officers have been working hard to break the gang up. With the arrests made last week and a considerable part of the stolen goods recovered, the officers are being highly complimented for their excel lent work. CHEAP RATES. Every Sunday, July 17th to Octo ber 2nd, inclusive, the Georgia and Florida Railway will sell round trip tickets between all stations in their line in Georgia at one and one-fourth fares for the round trip, limited re turning good on all trains arriving at original selling point by noon Monday. H. W. WATSON, G. P. A., Augusta, Georgia. 1H 1 THE RELIEF OF EYE STRAIN I IS OUR SPECIALTY. f ;; We provide glasses to meet every I :: defect and give the eye free, easy| f *» vision and increase ability for work tj. * jj W. f. WALKER, Jr„ Registered Optometrist y § * >i<»!' 'V '!■ 'A''l 'V ■!■ ■!' * -T- '!■ •>*❖**❖*❖*» ***4' ** * * *' ' H ' ** 1 * THE UNIVERSAL CAR Notice of Reduction in Ford Prices The following prices on Ford cars are effective June 7th, 1921, f. o. b. Detroit: Touring Car - - $415 Runabout' - - - $370 Chassis - - - $345 Coupe - $695 Sedan $760 % ( Ton Truck Chassis $495 No change in Tractor prices. \ STRICKLAND MOTOR CO. Authorized Ford Dealers PHONE 242 VIDALIA, GA. MATERIAL ARRIVING FOR SEWER WORK The first shipment of material for the construction of Vidalia’s sewer system has been received and heavy shipments are expected in the next few days, and it is hoped to start work at a very early date. Mr. Williams, who is connected with the J. B. McCrary Co., is in the city and will have charge of the con struction work. ISAAC M. GRAY. Isaac M. Gray, aged 74, passed away at his home near Baxley June 16th. Mr. Gray was formerly of Montgomery county, having resided there until the past few years, and raising one of the most highly es teemed families of that county. Mr. Gray. was married in 1871 to Miss Rosa Sharpe of Montgomery county and to this union were born seven children, all of whom survive him, Oscar D. and Hiram S. Gray of Baxley, Mrs. Geo. J. Stanford of Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Geo. Gray of Uvalda, Mrs. C. W. Love of Athens, Mrs. Hilton Williamson of near Vi dalia, Miss Susie Gray of Baxley, al so he is survived by hi? wife. COMPLIMENTING MISS JUEL DARBi. A beautiful affair for the bride elect, Miss Juel Darby, was the party given by Mrs. H. K. Murchison and Mrs. Lee Darby at the home of the former on Saturday afternoon. An interesting contest of making words from the names “Darby-Carter” was enjoyed by the guests. Using the same name?, acrostic wishes were made for the bride. After this, a game of heart dice was played. White and pink were the prevail ing colors, carried out in the garden flower decoration of the rooms, in the refreshments and ices, cake? and mints, and in the dainty powder puffs given as favors. Punch was served by Mrs. J. H. Jackson and Mrs. S. P. Darby. VIDALIA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 1921 TOBACCO SEASON TO OPENJOLT 2GTH J. A. WARREN, MANAGER OF THE LOCAL WAREHOUSE, REACHES CITY—SAYS PRICES FOR TOP GRADE WILL BE GOOD. Mr. J. A. Warren of Durham, N. C., who is manager and one of the lessees of the Vidalia Loose Leaf To bacco Warehouse, arrived here this week to attend to the necessary de tails of opening the Vidalia ware house, which has been scheduled for the 15th of this month. Mr. War ren states, however, that the firm? who send buyers ior the Georgia bright leaf are not quite ready at this time for the opening and most of them wish the opening dates to be postponed until about the 26th of this month, and if this date is agreed upon by the Georgia warehouses it is quite likely that the date will be set forward this extra week. Be fore coming to Vidalia, Mr. Warren had made a trip through Virginia and North Carolina, where mort of the big tobacco companies have head quarters, and since coming here he ha? made inspection tours over this section and reports that the pros pects are for a fair crop ants that the grades will be well above the average in the territory. This is very encouraging to the tobacco planters as the demand at this time is only for the top praties. it ap pears that a considerable amount of the tobacco crop has already ma tured and some of it has already been cured, this portion now being ready for marketing as quickly as the' buyers arrive. The weather has been favorable to maturing and gath ering the crop and with continued favorable weather for four weeks the tobacco yield will be satisfactory in this section. Mr. Warren states further that the Georgia tobacco crop is expected to yield this season about seven or eight million pound? and that this volume will be divided among about nine markets, which will average to each market less than one million pounds of sales. It is said that a warehouse, to secure a corps of buy ers, should market over a million pounds, and the small yield in the state will result in one of three things: * First, a generous increase in acre age : enough in fact to bring the vol ume up to fifteen or twenty million Official Organ City of Vidalia SON OF T. J. FORD IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. “Buster,” the young son of Mr. T. J. Ford, had a narrow escape with his life last week when he was ac cidentally shot by one of his broth ers who was playing with a 22-cali ber rifle. The little fellow was removed to the Vidalia Hospital and an X-ray photograph showed that the bullet had passed within an inch of the base of the brain and close to the spinal cord. The little fellow recov ered rapidly from his wound and was to leave the hospital Tuesday. VIDALIA BASEBALL TEAM DISBONDED DIFFICULTY IN SECURING THE GAMES CAUSES BACKERS TO END SEASON MUCH EARLIER THAN WAS EXPECTED, Due to the difficulty of securing games with teams in this section, the Vidalia baseball team was disbanded last Friday, after a victory over the Claxton team here on that day by a score of 12 to 2. Most of the play ers left Saturday for their homes. Local enthusiasts are diseasing plans to have Manager Thrasher or ganize a team from local amateur players and it is hoped this can be done, so that the baseball enthusiasts can enjoy some good ball for the re mainder of the season. The sug gestion has also been made that a formidable amateur team could also be secured by combining the best talent in the towns of Vidalia and Lyons, and it may that something may be worked out along this line. The team, since starting to playing the latter part of May, has played 36 games, winning 27, losing 9 and play -1 ing one tie, a twelve inning contest with Statesboro. The record of the games won and lost is given b low: Qames Won. Vidalia 5; Mcßae 4. Vidalia 17; Alamo 7. Vidalia 9; Baxley 0. Vidalia 7; Claxton 6. Vidalia 8| Eastman 3. Vidalia 13; Hazlehurst 3. Vidalia 12; Statesboro 7. Vidalia 10; Stillmore 9. Vidalia 5; Hazlehurst\l. Vidalia 13: Claxton 2. Vidalia 1; Claxton 0. Vidalia 12; Hazlehurst 8. Vidalia 6; Claxton 5. Vidalia 2; Stillmore 0. Vidalia 6; Statesboro 5. Vidalia 1; Statesboro 0. Vidalia 2; Uvalda 1. Vidalia 12; Dublin 1. Vidalia 6; Statesboro 2. Vidalia 9; Claxton 0. Vidalia 13; Claxton 2. Vidalia 8; Millen 4. Vidalia 7; Statesboro 5. Vidalia 8; Mcßae 6. Vidalia 18, Wrightsville 5. Vidalia 4; Darien 0. Vidalia 13; Statesboro 5. Games Lost. Claxton 6; Vidalia 2. Kastman 5; Vidalia 2. Stillmore 6; Vidalia 5. Mcßae 4» Vidalia 2. Mcßae 6; Vidalia 5. Wrightsville 8; Vidalia 6. Statesboro 8; Vidalia 0. Statesboro Vidalia 4. Metter 4; Vidalia 1. Tied—Vidalia 3; Statesboro 3—12 innings. ! - - ‘ “* ‘ | pounds. ! Second, a reduction in markets suf ficient to leave the volume of each market large enough to pay the buy ers for their organizations to come to Georgia. ' Third, to withdraw buyers from the Georgia markets and the planters ?hip their crop to warehouses in the other sections that will make a spe cialty of handling the bright tobacco that comes from the Georgia bright leaf section. It is said that the Vidalia market will be assured this season of at least a million and a half pounds and that the grade will be of the most desirable to the buyers. This fact will assure this market of plenty of buyers and the planters of good prices. DUBLIN HOST TO LOCAL KIWANIANS 11 i BALL GAME WON BY DUBLIN ITES BY SCORE OF 9 TO B—AN ELABORATE BANQUET AT THE NEW DUBLIN FOR VISITORS. Headed by W. J. DcLoach, presi dent of the Vidalia Kiwanis Clutv about thirty local Kiwanians and their ladies, journeyed to Dublin on Thursday of last week, where they were royally entertained by the Dub lin Kiwanians. The party left the New Vidalia Ho tel at 2 o’clock and reached Dublin shortly after four. A large recep tion committee met the Vidalians at the New Dublin and everything pos sible was done for the comfort of the visitors. The ball game was played at the fair grounds and with Lennon and Turner doing the battery work for Vidalia, and with the locals playing errorless ball, for the first three in nings the game was fast and snappy. However, in the fourth inning a fine crop of errors was harvested, and the local players became winded and gladly agreed to calling the game at the end of the seventh inning, with the score 9to 1 in favor of Dublin. Following the game, the visitors were given an auto ride to interest ing} points about the city, meeting again at the New Dublin for the ban quet. Covers were laid for 150, and P. S. 1 Twitty, president of the Dub lin club, acted as toastmaster. The welcome address was deliver ed by Judge J. S. Adams, Mr. D. C. Pattillo responding for the Vidalia Kiwanis Club. Mayor L. Q. Stubbs spoke on “Why We Love Vidalia’ •id the Vidalians who remembered the aid given by Mayor Stubbs in the ?ewer campaign, gave him a great ovation. President DeLoach responded to the Mayors talk - and told of the inspiration the Vidalia club had received from the visits of the Dublin club and how they appre :ated the splendid hospitality shown them. Mis? Fannie Blitch gave an appreciation from the Vidalia ladies and charmed the diners with a de- * * 4> THE YOUNG MEN’S BIBLE CLASS | ♦ * 4? OF THE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL T ♦ * Invites you to join them. Meets Sunday morning' at 10.00. I ♦ ’ One hour in worship and studying God’s word. ♦ || Come. A welcome awaits you. 2 + ♦ <• + * » » ****** »»»»**»»♦»♦*+♦*♦» * » ■!■ * » *** When Buying Hardware Cultivate a habit of econ omy, but not stinginess. You know that below a certain price it is im possible to manufacture GOOD HARDWARE of any kind. When you have an article offered for less than we ask for it, it is inferior. We do not handle shoddy' stuff, but our prices. 3 will compare favorably with those I of any other. I Lee Hardware Compy I Telephone No. 16 S NUMBER 28 THE M. D. & S. RAILWAY RUNNING MELON SPECIAL. 'I he M. D. & S. Railway is ope rating a watermelon special train from this point every day now, the train usually carrying from fifteen Jq forty; cars. The melons are originating in this section of Georgia, most of them coming from Seaboard points be tween here and Savannah, and the fruit as seen thgoruh the vents in the cars are of good size, showing thirty to forty-five pound average. It is said that he large melons are in demand in he east and north and that the Georgia melons, which are noted for their lusciousness, are be ing bought at a very satisfactory price, the Florida crop having been shipped out before the melons from this section were ready, leaving the markets open for the shippers from this territory. IN HONOR OF MISS ESTHER PEARSALL Mrs., Leighton Tillman entertained at seven tables of Progressive Rook last Friday afternoon «in honor of her house guest, Miss Esther Pear sall. -The beautiful home was at tractively decorated in yellow and whitp cut flowers, the same color scheme being carried out in the re ments. Punch was served by Mrs. H. P. Willbanks. Monday evening Miss Claudia Stith entertained at fdur tables of Progressive Rook in Miss Pearsall's houor. Cut flowers were used for decoration and at the conclusion of the game delicious refreshments were served. lightful reading. Miss Blanche Neel of Macon, accompanied by Miss Eula PefersoH of Vidalia, rendered a num ber of beautiful solos. The guest prizes, a box of cigars and a silver mesh bag. were drawn by A. C. Jenkins and Mrs. H. Lie Burkhalter. Following the banquet, many lin gered for dancing, Vidalia being reached in the “wee ?ma’ hours” of Friday morning. All who made the trip declared they were never more royally entertained and that the Dub lin Kiwanians left nothing undone to show them a great time.