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THE VIDALIA ODVANCE
VOLUME XIX
RED CROSS TO
WWW
EFFORT TO BE MADE TO REACH
EVERY EX-SERVICE MAN AND
ADVISE WITH HIM AS TO HIS
RIGHTS.
Vidalia has been made headquar
ters for the following counties in the
Red Cross Clean-up Campaign:
Wheeler, Treutlen, Montgomery,
Toombs, Emanuel, Tattnall and Cand
ler. This distinction comes to the
Vidalia office on account of its lo
cality and the active work that has
been undertaken by the organization
at this point for the past three years.
The campaign is being organized
by the Red Cross to reach every ex
service man throughout the country
and fully? advise them of their rights
under the War Risk Insurance Act.
The Vocational Rehabilitation Act.
and to assist disabled ones in secur
ing compensation, medical treatment
and hospital care. Assistance will
also be given all whose claim? are
pending or where additional evidence
Is needed or to provide for immedi
ate physical examinations where nec
essary and furnish hospitalization for
the urgent cases.
The campaign dates for this city
are November 1,2, 3 and 4, and the
clean-up squad will be here on those
dates. However, a field representa
tive will be here prior: to that time
and it will be necesary to have as
much information in hand as possible
in order that the squad may com
plete their work in the short time
allotted.
A list of ex-service men is required
first, and a questionnaire will be sent
to each of them in which they niay
make known their wants as to com
pensation. vocationl training, insu
rance and mileage.
The Red Cross has been helping the
soldier all through during the war
| THE RELIEF OF EYE STRAIN . <*/**»»> I
IS OUR SPECIALTV.
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”> defect and give the eye free, easy
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Strickland Motor Co.
Announcement I
i
We are pleased to announce a big re
ductiou on Ford Parts. This necissitats a
loss to us, but our loss is your gain. It will
be possible for you to repair your car at a
very small cost. So come in and figure with
us. We have just received a car load of
Ford Cars if you anticipate buying.
Strickland Motor Co. Lyons Motor Co.
Vidalia, Ga. Lyons, Ga.
TERRIFIC RAINS DID
MUCH DAMAGE IN THIS
SECTION LAST FRIDAY
A terrific rain last Friday after
noon and evening did much damage
in this section.
Around Uvalda and in the lower
section of the county the rain ap
proached the nature of a cloudburst,
gowing crops and farm lands being
badly damaged. In many piaus con
siderable damage was done i » me
county roads.
The railroads suffered consider
able. The southbound M. D. & S.
| train was held up by a washout a
few miles south of Dublin, passen
gers reaching Vidalia about two
o’clock in the morning and then hav
ing to suffer the inconvenience of a
transfer. The westboud Seabord
train was also delayed for a number
of hours by a w r ashout.
I A number of motorists c«ming in
from Macon Friday evening had a
trip that will long be remembered,
boggy roads, swollen streams and
washed away bridges making it dif
ficult to get through.
SWARM OF BEES CAUSE
MUCH EXCITEMENT ON
CHURCH STREET CORNER
A swarm of bees caused much ex
citmenet Monday afternoon when
they stopped for a rest in the syca
more tree at the corner of Church
street and Railroad avenue.
J. C. Mosley, who likes honey and
knows considerable about bees, cap
■ tured the swarm and now has them
hived. He declare* they are Italian
i bees, and that therefore they could
■ not possibly belong to S. B. Mead
. ows, who claims them.
CONVERSATION IS CHEAP?
.
and it will see him through during
the clean-up campaign.
It will be well for every ex-service
man in this section to call or send to
the socal headquarters of the Red
: Cross his questionnaire immedi
ately.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10 1921
EXPECT IRE FIRST
BILE THIS WEEK
FORECAST OF 6,000 BALES IN
TOOMBS COUNTY—NUMBER OF
BUYERS ON LOCAL MARKET—
-4,000 BALES EXPECTED HERE.
The first bale of the 1921 crop will
probably be ginned Thursday, ar
rangements having been made for j
the ginning at the Vidalia Cotton
Oil Mill ginnery, and if the weather
permits the bringing in of this bale,
the new season will be started, the
crop being about two weeks earlier
than last season, when the first bale
was ginned on the 22nd of August.
Tl>e Toombs county yield is nor
mally between fifteen and seventeen
thousand bales, but since the boll
weevil has been working ims section
for the past two years the yield has
dropped to six thousand bales, the
ginning figures for the county show
ing just a few bales over six thous
and in last year’s ginnings, and it is
estimated that the yield this season
will run to not quite six thousand, the
acreage having been about the same
to g small cut and the fertilizers be
ing cut at least fifty per cent. How
ever, the weather has been more fa
vorable this season than last.
The Toombs county carry-over for
this season will run to nearly nine
hundred bales, three hundred being
in Vidalia warehouses, about three
hundred in Lyons warehouse*, and
the balance of the nine hundred be
ing carried on plantations. La?
season the carry-over was about 100
bales, 80 of this amount being in the
Vidalia warehouses.
Local warehouses and cotton buy
ers have already perfected organiza
tion for handling the new crop with
expediency.
The Vidalia Warehouse Company
has built a complete new platform to
their plant neat —tFn'oil mill, and Mr.
I. J. Harrell, who is warehouseman
for this firm, announces that he is
ready to handle cotton from this
date. The Tobacco Warehouse is
being used at this time for tobacco
sales, but, will probably be ready for
cotton about the Ist or 15th of Sep
tember. Mr. Flanders has been en
gaged to weigh and grade at this
place under government supervision.
There will be quite a number of
buyers here this season. The Dixie
Cotton Company will run their ex
porting office here a? usual. Mr. J.
R. Coombs, who has been with this
Official Organ City of VidaKa
TRENCH DIGGING MACHINE
ORDERED FOR WORK ON
LOCAL SEWER SYSTEM
After a conference with the Mayor
and council, the J. B. McCrary Co.,
has ordered one of their trench dig
ing machines sent to Vidalia. The
machine is expected here the last of
the week and as soon as it is in op
eration much greater progress will
be made.
About 50 men are now employed in
the work, and the contractors have
made an innovation which is proving
very satisfactory to the laborers dur
ing the hot days. Work is started
at 5 o’clock in the morning and sus
pends at 10 until 2 o’clock, when
work is resumed until 7. The long
noonday rest during the hot part of
the day has made a decided hit with
the workers.
THURSDAY A BIG
DAY AT WAREHOUSE
ABOUT 40,000 POUNDS OF TOBAC
CO TO BE SOLD THURSDAY—
SALES FOR TUESDAY AND
WEDNESDAY LIGHT.
Thursday will be a big day with the
Vidalia Loose Leaf Tobacco Ware
house, fully 40.000 being expected to
;be placed on sale Thursday. Most of
the tobacco will come from the Collins
neighborhood and the quality is said
to be above the average.
Sales for the week having been
light, prices ranged from 1 cent to 36
cents. About 12,00 pounds were
sold Tuesday, while Tuesday sales
totalled about 5,000 pounds.
TWELFTH DIST. MASONIC
CONVENTION MEETS IN
COCHRAN AUG. 17 AND 18
Cochran, Ga. —The Twelfth District
Masonic Convenfidn will meet in
Cochran August 17th and 18th, and'
great preparations will be made for
their entertainment.
The county authorities- have kindly
granted us the use of the court house
and the sessions will be held there.
One hundred or more delegates and
visiting brethren are expected to at
tend. On the first day, Wednesday,
August 17th, a Masonic rally will be
held, a barbecue will be given by
given at the J. H. Mullis grounds
and the grand officer of Masons is
to deliver anaddress.
All Masons and their families and
friends are invited to attend. Ma
sons are requested to bring well fill
ed baskets. •
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CONVERSATION IS CHEAP?
concern for a number of years, has
a new connection and will stay in
the Vidalia market. Mr. J. F. Darby
will buy as usual; Mr. O. D. War
then has made a nice cotton connec
tion and will buy here again, and the
merchants and fertilizer men will also
keep buyers on the market to handle
cotton for their customers.
With six thousand bales grown in
the county, the Vidalia market should
get about two thousand bales of the
yield brought to the local market.
Lyons should market about three
thousand bales of the Toombs coun
ty crop, while the balance of the six
thousand bales will be (Ttviucu among
the other Toombs county towns
where buyers are stationed.
In addition to the Toombs coun
ty growth, Vidalia should handle an
equal amount of bales from Mont
gomery and Kmamiel counties, thus
making the Vidalia market good for
about four thousand bales, and if
this is done the local market will be
about on par with preceding seasons.
Very few cotton markets in this
section will have as good a volume
as last season, on account of the cut
in fertilizers and the ravages of the
boll weevil, but Vidalia will probably
make up for whatever shortness
there may be in the home i*<op by
drawing from further distances tor
her usual volume.
According to statistics from the De
partment of Agriculture, the general
crop will be exceedingly short this
season, their estimate forecasting a
vield of a little over eight million
bales, and this fact should reflect it
self in the increased price of the
staple. -■
IICI ERADICATION
PROVIHG SUCCESSFUL
FIFTEEN MORE COUNTIES TO
BE RELEASED FROM QUARAN
TINE THIS FALL—TAYLOR HAS
BEEN RE-QUARANTINED.
Tick eradication has progressed so
satisfactorily in Geotgra that prob
ably 15 or more counties will be re
leased from federal quarantine this
season, according to a report just
issued by the United States Depar
tment of Agriculture. During June
814,565 dippings of cattle were offi
cially supervised in the state, and in
the counties expected to be released
from only 300 tick infest
ed herds were found.
With the exception of one county,
Taylor, there has been hearty co
operation in carrying on the
eradication work. The commission
er’s court of Taylor county declined
to co-operate with the state for the
enforcement of dipping and quaran
tine regulations, and has refused td
complete the work of tick eradica
tiqn in herds, on premises and in
localities held under local quarantine
at the time the federal quarantine
was revoked in December. 1920. For
this reason it ha? been necessary to
requarantine Taylor county.
The order, effective Augtfst Ist,
was signed by Acting Secretary of
Agriculture Ball.
There is in effect in Georgia a
state regulation which provides that
all cattle going through the dipping
vat shall be marked with paint at
each dipping. This regulation h,as
been of great assistance in facilitat
ing tick eradication work. Range
riders, whose fluty it is to pick up
any cattle not marked with paint,
are employed in each county. Un
dipped cattle are taken to the dip
ping vat and dipped at the expense
of the owner, or if the owner cannot
be found, they are treated as strays
and 1 sold for the expenses incurred
in their gathering and dipping.
To this system, the department of
agriculture attributes the satisfacto
ry results in ridding the state of
ticks. In fact, it is said there are
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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 I
for it, it is inferior. We do not I
handle shoddy' stuff, but our prices I
will compare favorably with those I
of any other. I
Lee Hardware Comp’y I
Telephone No. 16
NUMBER 32
LOCAL FARMERS DISCUSSING
PLANS TO ORGANIZE A
TRUCK GROWERS ASS N.
A number of local farmers who are
breaking away from cotton are dis
cussing plans to call a meeting of
farmers in this section and working
up a truck growers association.
According! to their plans, the object
of the meeting would be to secure
agreement on the part of the farm
ers to plant good acreage in melons
and canteloupes, sweet and Irish po
tatoes and many other crops with a
view of being able to ship in carload
lots and securing buyers to'come to
this and other shipping points in this
section.
GILLIS-PETERSON.
A beautiful wedding and one of
interest, uniting two very prominent
families, was that of Miss Kathryn
Gillis and Mr. James Peterson, of
Ailey, which took place Thursday af
ternoon at five o’clock at the at
tractive country home of the bride’s
father, Mr. N. L. Gillis, near Soper
tcn.
Only close relatives of the bride
. and groom were present.
The bride is an unusually lovely
. young woman and is loved and ad
mired by all who know her. She
was connected with the school wotfc
at Gillis Spring and Soperton for
several terms and left the beautiful
i impress of her influence upon the
minds and hearts of the lads and
lassies with whom she labored so
patiently, and by her long service
has endeared herself not only to
her young charges but likewise to
their grateful parents.
The groom is a prominent young
business man of Ailey and has a
large coterie of friends in this sec
tion. ,
Later Mr. and Mrs. Peterson left
for Savannah, going from there to
Boston, New York and other places
of interest. After their return they
will be at home to their friends in
Ailey.—Soperton News.
Mrs. Tnez Wiggs visited friends in
Macon last week.
fewer undipped cattle in Georgia in
counties in which tick eradication
is being carried on than in any of
the states.
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