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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
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Items of Genera / Interest Around Town; A Persona
Mention of Those Who Come and Go.
Messrs. L. L. Lowe and Foster
Thompson spent Tuesday in Metter.
Mr. C. T. Darley of Douglas was
in the city Monday.
Mr. R. M. Stanley' spent several
days in Atlanta last week.
Messrs. W. A. Jones and John
T. Ragan spent Sunday in Dublin.
Mr. R. E. Wood of Dublin spent
■sday here.
Dr. and Mrs. H. F. J. Arundel
and the latter’s sister. Miss Anne
Kunck, spfcnt Monday in Savannah.
—Don’t let mosquitoes bother you.
“Hot Shot” will rid the house of
them. We guarantee it. Page’s
Drug Store.
Mrs. R. S. Edrington and Mrs.
Ruth Purvis of Los Cal.,
are visiting Mrs. H. L. Burkhalter.
—FOR SALE —Brand new. latest
model. Ford Touring- Car. Mead
ows & Christian. ■
Mr. E. J. Cook has purchased the
Service Pressing Gub frotp Mr. W.
H. Cherty.
Miss Evelyn Kjnard, who has been
visiting Mrs. J. B. Warthen. left
last week for her home at Baxley.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Duggan and
Mr. and .Mrs. E. T. Dickens spent
Friday in Soperton, attending the
Treutlen County Fair.
Mrs. M. A. Carter, James Carter
and Margaret Carter left Monday for
\yhee they will make their
home.
Mr. A. A. Darby has returned
from a trip to Lakeland, Fla., and
is making plans to move to his new
home the last of the week.
County School Superintendent T.
B. Conner and Mr. and Mrs. E. 0,
Dickson of Mt. Vernon were in the
city Monday.
Mr. Lawton Braswell of Dublin
moved to Vidalia this week, having
accepted a position with the New
York Case.
Mrs. John T. Ragan returned to
her home here Sunday, after spend
ing several days with relatives in
Mcßae.
Mrs. W. B. Haynes and Miss Er
na*" Haynes spent the week-end in
Fitzgerald with Mr. W. B. Haynes
and Mr. W. B. Haynes, Jr.
Miss Erna Haynes will leave Fri
day for Baxley, where she goes as a
delegate to the Epworth League Con
ference from the local League
Read the ad of the Oconee Market
■elsewhere in this issue and see the
low prices they are making on Fresh
and Cured Meats.
Mrs. B. F. Brown, Mrs. F. M.
Smith and Mrs E. F. Parker of
Lyons attended the Benefit Rook par
ty given by the Woman’s Club Mon
day afternbon.
Rev. Lee Hanks of Atlanta, well
known to \ idalians, having li\*er in
this city several years, was here on
Saturday. Mr. Hanks is publishing
the Gospel Messenger, a religious pa
per, in Atlanta and states that his
publication, is 'meeting with much
success.
Mr. V. C. Sowell, who last week
bought the Oconee Market, is giving
the high cost of living a wallop, and
this will be appreciated by Vidalia
people. Selling only for cash, Mr.
Sowell has cut*the prtfe of pork and
>teak to 16 cents per pound. Give
i a trial order. Phone 48. A<fv-
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Lee were
called to Dawson last Wednesday
morning by the sudden death of M.*
Lee's father, Mr. W. W. Lee. who
died suddenly that morning at his
home near ,Dawson, at the ripe agi
of 85 years. Funeral services were
held Thursday morning. Mr. Lee
had visited often in Vidalia and was
very highly esteemed by those who
had made his acquaintance.
judge V. B. Herring, recently
commissioned notary public and ex
officio J. P. by the governor, held
his first court WednesdayT All who
attended the court said that he pre
sided with becoming grace and dig
nity.
Monday morning, while at the sta
tion meeting some relatives, the lit
tle four-year-old son of Mr. Silas
Williams decided he wanted to make
a trip on the train, so he boardfd the
westbound Seabqprd. After the
tiain had departed the child was
missed, but the anxiety of the family
was relieved in a short time by a
phone message from Higgston that
he had been put off the train there
id was in custody of the agent at
,t point.
Miss Lessie Memory and Mr. Rod
ney Allmond were married Monday
night, the ceremony being performed
t Mt. Vernon. They have a host
of friends who wiy hasten to extend
congratulations.
Dr. VV. F. Peacock’s Ford sedan
was destroyed by fire Tuesday after-
Coming in from a call, Dr.
Peacock left his car in front of his
home and about a half hour later
was discovered in flames. He and
<rs. Peacock pushed the car down
:> the road, and since the doctor had”
insurance on the car, made man
ful efforts to subdue the flames, but
such headway had been gained that
the car practically destroyed.
INCREASING YIELD OF THE
SWEET POTOTO IN GEORGIA
The average yield of sweet pota
toes for the State of Georgia is less
than 90 bushels per acre. This *is
very low when compared with numer
ous cases on record where growers
have produced more than 400 bushels
on an acre. At the Georgia Experi
ment Station a half acre plat of Por
to Rico variety, on average red clay
lam soil, produced over 200 bushels
of potatoes, a large per centage of
which were marketable. Other va
rieties as the Triumph, though not
considered as good in quality, are
known to produce yields of 500 to
700 bushels per acre.
The Georgia Experiment Station is
raising only the Porto Rico variety
because it is believed that this is the
best variety for this State. The
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strain of Porto Ricos raised at the
Station is one of the best in the
state and is being improved as to uni
formity of size and freedom from dis
ease through selection and seed treat
ment from year to year.
What is being done at the Experi
ment Station may be done by the
sweet potato growers througout he
state. Growers may become familiar
with the sweet potato diseases by' ex
perience or bettei by reading the bul
lefins describing such diseases. With
this information any' grower should “be
able to go into the field at harvest
time and select hills of potaoes free
from disease and which have five or
more marketable potatoes to the" hill.
A sufficient number of such hills can
be selected to supply potatoes for the
bed next spring. A more uniform
type of sweet potatoes will be ob
tained if only the medium sized, well
shaped potatoes are saved from the
selected hills for seed. Such select
ed seed should be stored carefully by
and to itself, preferably' in crates'in
a modern curing house, which will in
sure their keeping until ready to bed
in the spring. Where growers have
no storage houses of their own it
would pay them to rent sufficient
space to store their seed potatoes in;
one of the many commercial storage
houses now in operation throughout
the states
, Some growers believe that potatoes
in banks or pits will produce
sprouts or draws better and quicker
than potatoes stored in curing houses-
Tin's is a mistaken idea, as proven by
the Experiment Stations and growers
throughout the South, who have test
ed this and found that the seed po
tatoes stored in prop rlv operated
houses produced more .'and better
plants per bushel of seed.
It is as important to get the 1-w
yielding, diseased hills of potatoes
out of your seed strains as it is to
get the bad seed out of your corn
or cotton seed, or the poor producers
out of your cattle, hogs and poultry-
Your profits from sweet potatoes
will be increased and the state's av
erage yield per acre will be raised if
you will stgrt this fall to improve
y-our sweet potatoes by seed selection
along the lines above mentioned.
J. A. McCLTNTOCK.
Plant Physilogist.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
Signature of
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VETERANS ARE URGED
TO ATTEND REUNION
The Daughters of the Confederacy
every'where are urging the veterans
of the 60’s and their friends to at
tend the reunion at Chattanooga on
October 24th to 27th.
The rates will be low and the re
union, promises to be one of the best
yet held. Invitations are being sent
out by the city of Chattanooga to
“come oner come all,” and the vet
erans must go. Let everybody aid
them in getting their certificates and
in knowing of the date.
•The U. D. C. of Vidalia will be
glad to give any information to the
'veterans or any member of /their
families regarding the trip. Call on
Mis. J. VV. Poe for the railroad cer
tificates.
IS SOMETHING WRONG?
Thirty-Two Thousand Eight Hundred
And Forty-Three Die.
A recent study made by the Bureau
of Vital Statistics of the Georgia State
Board of Health of percentages of
death in certain age periods has
brought out the following interesting
and astonishing facts:
There were 32,843 deaths in Geor-
J gia last year, 449 of these were deaths
‘from typhoid and of these 18.3% were
of children 1-9 years old. Malaria
caused 559 deaths, the highest per cent
in the series, 31.1% being in the 1-9
age group. Os the 363 deaths from
whooping cough, 98.7% were in the
1-9 year group; of the 408 diphtheria
deaths 95.4% were in this period; of
the 2,543 deaths from tuberculosis,
3.2% were in the period; 1.670 of the
432 pellagra deaths occcurred in chil
dren under nine y'ears old; even the
1,252 deaths from cancer had a .6%
incidence in this age group. The fig
ures that show the most criminal neg
ligence (since the simplest protection
on the part of the parent would avoid
most of them), are those showing that
deaths from accidents give -5.9%, the
highest percentage of all, to children
from 1-9 years of age.
Is something wrong? With the ago
period 1-9 represented by percentages,
—and high percentages, —of Heaths un
der every heading, the only conclusion
that can be drawn is, that we are not
considering our children the “natiou’a
best asset” nor yet are we giving much
consideration to the future, if the "hope
of the future” is allowed to be sub
ject to conditions so ruinous. * There
is something wrong; something wrong
with the nation, state, county, city,
.community, school or home; something
wroug with the child’s food, his clothes,
his rest, or care. The Division of
Child Hygiene, State Board of Health,
will heip you so\ve the problem of
what you and your eomniiMiity can do
for your child. I /
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WASH YOUR HANDS;
SANITATE YOUR HOME!
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A very large percentage of the sick
ness of the human race is due to the
eating or drinking of human excre
ment. This is not very pleasant to
think of and less elegant to write
about, yet it is necessary sometimes
for us to know unpleasant and distate
ful things. When one takes typhoid
fever he has partaken of human
faeces; w'hen we have dysentery wa
are obliged to have taken into our
mouths the germs that are thrown off
from one who has the disease in the
movement of the bowels. This is
also true of other diseases.
There are many ways in which these
germs arfe transmitted from the host,
the diseased person, to the well per
son. If all human excrement could
he immediately handled In a sanitary
w'ay these diseases would become an
cient history.—
One thing that everyone could do
to lessen the incidence of these dis
j eases w'ould be the constructing of
I sanitary' closets. Thejyare inexpen
sive and almost anyone could have
a safe privy. For the amount of the
investment we do not know of a great
er return; it is the very best, cheapest
life insurance policy that you can
take out.
The State Board of Health. Atlanta,
issues bulletins giving you instructions
how to construct sanitary closets tor
rural homes and schools, and send
when requested working plans, so that
anyone can build such a closet, ft
is your duty to yourself and family,
let alone to your neighbor, to build
an approved closet. Write for these
plans and bulletins and get busy.
THE MOUTH IS THE SOURCE OF
INFECTION
Most contagious diseases find thfdi
way through the mouth.
Disease germs«cannot thrive or sur
vive unless bad conditions exist.
Defective teeth causes much of the
sickness among children and adults.
By careful attention to the cleans
ing of the mouth and sterilization of
the food, the alimentary tract may he
rendered comparatively sterile.
From a hygienic standpoint die se
cretions of the mouth constitute one'
of the chief resources of respiratory
infection.
The mouth is one of the greatest
sources of infection that we have to
deal with in preventive medicine to
day.
In the words of Dr. William Osier*
"Oral Hygiene—the Hygiene of the
mouth. There is not one single thing
more important to the public in the
whole range of Hygiene than that.’’
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SEED, CORN SHOULD BE
SELECTED IN THE FIELD
Seed corn should be selected in
the field and not from the corn crib,
as no improvement can he made un
less the character of the stalk on
which the corn grew is known, ac
cording to the Extension Division of
the Georgia State College of Agri
culture.
There is a commonly accepted ideal
that a. variety will run out if grown j
in the same locality for a number of
years. This idea is erroneous, as the!
corn that has been selected from |
your own field from year to year is
better seed than can be bought from
some other section. It is. of course,
necessary that the grower start with
a good variety and keep it isolated
that no crossing with other varieties
take place.
I The importance of using pure seed
cot-n of a variety adapted to the con
ditions in the section in which it is
grown, has never been fully real
ized by many farmers.
Those farmers, however, who do
not care to select their own seed in
the field should secure fresh seed
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every few years from some reliable |
plant breeder, as constant selection:
is necessary in order to keep corn j
up to a high standard.
The fodder should never be pulled j
from corn intended for seed as nu-!
merous tests have shown that corn |
loses in weight from 15 to 30 per
cent and that seed from stalks from
which the fodder has been pulled do
not give as high yields as when it
I is allowed to remain on the stalk.
In a few hours a grower can go
through his fields and select enough
I seed to plant his crop for the next
| year. In making these selections the
following characters should be look
ed out for:
1. Two g<jod sized ears per stalk.
2. Tip of ear completely covered
by shuck to keep out weevils.
3. Medium sized stalk in most of
the varieties.
4. Ears; low down on stalk to pre
vent breaking over.
5. Ears with tip turned down, which
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keeps out tnoisture.
6. Ears filled out at butts and at
the tips.
7. Long cylindrical ears with small
cobs and deep grains.
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, inpreventing injury from weevils.
This seed corn should bethoroughly
! dried and placed in a barrel or other
tight receptacle to prevent injury
| from weevils or rats. About six or
| eight ounces of carbon bisulphide can
be placed in a shallow dish in the
top of a barrel and the barrel cov
ered tight and this will kill all the
weevils.
The prolific corns have invariably
the highest yields in variety
tests and when good seed of a pro
lific variety is secured to begin with
they can he kept to a high standard
by selecting in the field.
Anyone interested in more detailed
information on seed selection can se
cure a bulletin on Seed Selection on
the Farm from the College of Agri
culture. Athens, Ga.
No Worms in a Healthy Child
All children troubled with Worms have au un
healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a \
rule, there is more or l ess stomach disturbance. |
GROVE S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC given regu
larly for two or three weeks will enrich the blood,
improve the digestion, and act as a general Strengt
hening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child wlllbe
in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.