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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XX
KHANS FAVOR .
• BUILDING SIDEWALKS
COMMITTEE NAMED TO CONFER
WITH COUNCIL IN REGARD TO
THE PUTTING DOWN OF SIDE
-4 WALKS ON JACKSON STREET.
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Anxious to see the city authorities
start on the construction of sidewalks
in different sections of the city, which
is now possible under amended city
charter, passed at he recent session
of the legislature, the Vidalia Kiwan
is Club appointed a committee to con
• fer with he city authorities and with
property owners on Jackson street
with regard to the putting down of
concrete walks and curbing. The
committee expects to make a report
t at the next meeting, and it is hoped
that sidewalks extending from Rail
road Avenue to Sixth Streea can be
laid this fall.
Makes Plea For Valley Forge
Memorial.
The club had as its guests Monday
9 evening Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Aker
man of Macon. Mr. Akerman is the
chief counsel for the M. D .& S. Ry.
and in his talk had many complimen
tary things to say regarding the pro
gress and growth of \ idalia. He told
the Club laughingly that if the torch
was the only way the old freight de
a pot could be moved, there would be
» no prosecution for arson on the part
► of the M. D. & S. road.
Mrs. Akerman, who is State Regent
.for the Daughters of the American
kevolution, made a plea tor
tion on the part of the Kiwanis Clubs
in completing the Georgia crypt in the
Valley Forge Memorial. Georgia and
North Carolina, she said, were the only
states out of the thirteen colonies who
i had not completed their crypts,' and
every Georgian who visited this beau
tiful memorial to General Washington
was forced to blush with shame.
New Members.
4 Mr. F.. T. Mcßride was welcomed
4’,s a new member, as was also Mr
M. F. Brice, a member of the Doug
las Kiwanis Club, who recently moved
to Vidalia.
SHARPE DRUG CO. OPENS
FOR BUSINESS SATURDAY
The Sharpe Drug Co., Vidalia’s new
drug concern, will open for business
* Saturday. The lower floor of the
building, formerly occupied
by the postffioce, has been handsome
ly fitted up and they will have one
of the most attractive drug stores m
the city.
The business will be conducted by
Mr. S. L. Sharpe, who is a thorough
ly experienced druggist and well
known in this section, having been in
business at Lyons for a number of
THE VIDALIA W. B. M. U.
WEEK OF PRAYER
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All the ladies of the W. B. M. U.
are urged to observe the week of
prayer, beginning Monday afternoon
•and continuing through Wednesday
The meetings will be held
at the Baptist church Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday afternoons at 4
o’clock. Interesting programs have
be«en arranged for each afternoon and
please come to these meetings.
SHIPMENT OF VOGUE HATS
NOW BEING DISPLAYED
• A shipment of the famous Vogue
Hats has just been received and are
now on display. You will enjoy see
ing these celebrated hats, and I will
be. glad to have you call and inspect
them before buying.
MRS. J. E. THOMPSON.
EAST PARK DWELLINGS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Fire Sunday night about 8 o'clock
destroyed two dwellings in East Park.
* The buildings \ ere owned by I. N.
f- Rountree and occupied by negroes.
HEMSTITCHING.
Hemstitching and Picoting. All the
thread furnished. 8 and 10c yard,
y MRS. R. M. STANLEY,
♦ ! At Vfdalia Hardware Co. Store,
ts. Vidalia, Ga.
TOOMBS COUNTY FAIR, LYONS, GA., OCTOBER 17-21
PROMOTERS JEFF DAVIS
HIGHWAY VISIT VIDALIA
Mr. Isadore Gelders, of Fitzgerald,
who launched the movement for the
creation of the Jeff Davis Highway,
running from Vicksburg, Miss., to
Richmond, Va., spent Monday after
noon in Vidalia conferring with a
number of citizens. Mr. Gelders was
accompanied by Mr. Gottleib, Dr.
McElroy and,F. Gelders, all of Fitz
gerald. The party was on its way
home from Savannah, where the sug
gested highway was favorably receiv
ed. The rbute of the proposed high
way is from Richmond through the
Carolinas to Augusta, and then via
Waynesboro and Swainsboro to Vi
dalia, connecting here with the east
ern branch from Savannah to Vidalia,
and following the present state high
way through Mt. Vernon, Alamo and
Mcßae. From Mcßae the nfghway
goes to Fitzgerald, on to Montgomery,
terminating at Vicksburg.
Mr. Gelders stated Monday that du
ring the month of November a public
meeting in the interest of the high
way would he held at Vidalia, and
delegations from all counties as far
west as Fitzgerald, east to Savannah
and north to Augusta would meet to
discuss plans for the highway.
EPWORTH LEAGUE TO GIVE
OYSTER SUPPER ON OCT. 5
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There will be given by the Epworth
League of the Mt. Vernon Methodist
church, Thursday night ,October sth,
an oyster supper at the home of Mr.
W. H. Sharpe. Proceeds to go for
the benefit of the church. Everybody
invited.
OAK PARK SOON TO HAVE
MODERN SCHOOL BUILDING
The community of Oak Park, in
Emanuel county, has awarded the con
tract for the erection of a $10,000.00
school building to John T. Ragan &
Company, of Vidalia. Work will be
gin at an early date and will be push
ed as rapidly as possible.
WORK OK HIGHWAY
HAS ALREADY BEGUN
WORK WILL BE STARTED AT
TATTNALL CO. LINE AND PRO.
CEEI) TOWARD LYONS. MOVED
CAMP TO MT MORIAH CHURCH.
Preparations necessary to begin
ning work on the State Highway,
known as route number 30, are being
made.
Superintendent J. B. Johnson has
moved the camp from the County
Farm to a beautiful camping site at
Mt. Moriah churchy maintaining a
patch gang and also the tractor gang
at the County Farm.
State Highway Engineer Newton
who has charge of the surveying
phase of the work will move to Lyons
some time this week. He states that
the road’ bed on which the highway
is to be built is as good as any in the
state.
The construction work will he un
der the direct supervision or Superin
tendent Johnson who is considered!
one of the beat, if not the best, road
builder in the state. The work will
he started at the Tattnall county line
and proceed toward Lyons and Vida-1
lia.—Lyons Progress.
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TOOMBS COUNTY FAIR AT
LYONS, OCTOBER 17 TO2l
Iterest in the fair grows rapic.lv as
the time approaches. Already ex
hibits of various types are being list
ed with Manager G. C. Brantley and
from reports this is to be by far the
best Fair ever held in Toombs coun
ty-
Mr. Brantley is devoting his entire
time to the success of the Fair and
the directors feel that in securing his
services They were very fortunate,
This body of men. the manager and
directors, should he congratulated ror
their determination to advertise it
properly, since this is the only way to
make it become what it should be if
Toombs is given a creditable display
of her agricultural productions. •
VIDALIA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1922
Death Claims Senator
Thos. E. Watson Tuesday
END COMES AT 3 O’CLOCK TUES
DAY MORNING—WAS IN SEAT
SENATE FRIDAY—DIES ON DAY
HE PLANNED TO RETURN TO
GEORGIA—BODY BROUGHT TO
GEORGIA FOR BURIAL.
WASHINGTON, —Senator Thomas E J
Watson of Georgia died suddenly at
his home, 8 West Melrose street,
Chevy Chase, Md., at 3 o’clock Tues
day morning. Death was due to acute
asthma.
A week ago the Georgia senator
suffered a severe attack of asthma, of
which he had been a victim- for the
past fifteen years.
At Work
At the final session of thi senate
Friday he occupied his seat, though
his attending physicians. Thomas K.
Conrad and Gram S. Barnhart, pro
tested.
Sudden End
Sunday afternoon he dicated edi
torials for his newspaper, the Colum
bia Sntinel, and was apparently in
improved health Monday night. He
partook of a hearty dinner, but soon
after suffered a relapse and his condi
tion berarre critical. Mrs. W;i:-i m,
who re amed! it the WatS'-t. h>me in
Thomson, Ga., last spring after a
severe illness, was notified of her
husband’s death.
Senator Watson is survived by one
brother, W. A. Watson, and one sis
ter, Mrs. Julia Cliatt, both of Thom
son, Ga., Two grandchildren also sur
vive.
Senator Watson was 66 years oio
on September 5 this year.
“Members of the senator's family
and a number of close friend* v ere at
his bedside when the end came.”
Last Speech
During the first year and a half of
his term in the senate, to which he
was elected in 1920 after receiving the
nomination over Senator Hoke Smith
and Governor Hugh M. Dorsey, Sen
ator Watson gave no indication of
any impairment of the vigor and ac
tivity in politics and' as a publisher.
In his last speech in the fen. tt, de
livered only a week ago last Wednes
day, the Georgia Senator severely
criticised the administration with its
course in connection witn tne rail
road strike situation. His previous
attacks on the admnistration and'
most notably his charges of illegal
hangings in the American expendition
ary forces, the subject of exhaustive
investigation by a senate committee,
had made him a conspicuous fig
ure in the senate body during his brief
service there.
A Georgian
Born in Thomson, Da., in 1856
Senator Watson grew up and prac- j
ticed law for some years before
tering state politics. After serving in
the Georgia house of representatives
and later in 1888 as Democratic
elected to congress in 1891 on the
Popußst ticket. After being defeat
ed on that ticket in the next two
elections, Senator Watson was nom
inated as the choice for'vice presi
dent at the St. Louis Populist con
vention, which endorsed William J.
Bryan for President in 1896. Nom
inated for President by the People s
party in 1904, Senator Watson con
ducted an active campaign to revive
the party.
Suspend Paper
About that time he begun the pub
lication of Tom Watson’s Magazine
in New York and a year later under
took the publication of Watson’s Jef
fersonian Magazine, which was con
tinued under the name of the Weekly
Jeffersonien. The publications begun
in that period was suspended during
the Wilson administration when de
nied transmission through the mai's
after attacks appeared in them
against the draft act, the espionage
law and other war measures. Mr.
Watson then began publication of the
ColumFia Sentinel at Thomson, of
which he was proprietor up to his
death.
In the senator's own language, as
given in his biographical sketch in
the congressional directory, he con
ducted his campaign for the senate
Official Organ City of Vidah*
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mini* bVj.thw—
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as an “anti-Wilson, anti-league ana
an,ti-war measure Democrat.” After
defeating Senator Smith and Gov.
Dorsey for the nomination ne was
elected over Harry S. Edwards, inde
pendent candidate. who favored
American participation in the League
of Nations by an overwhelming maj
ority.
Was Famous Political
Leader In. Georgia
ATLANTA, —Senator Thomas E. Wat
son of Georgia, who died suddenly at
his home in Washington early Tues
day was one of the most famous fig
ures in the history of Georgia poli
tics and during the past four years
was considered by observers as wield
ing the strongest political influen-re
in the state.
For Walker
During the recent state Demo
cratic primary his support was used in
the interest of Clifford W. Walker,
successful candidate for the guberna
torial nomination. His position in
this race followed differences with
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick,
whom he supported' two years ago
when the “Two Toms” were both
elected.
Stormy Career
His career was one of stormy po
litical battles, dating back to 1890,
when he was elected to the 52nd con
gress. He ran for re-election on the
Populist ticket, but was defeated. In
1896, he was nominated for the Vice
Presidency of the United States by the
St. Louis Populist convention and in
1904 was nominated for the Presi
dency by the People’s party.
His Paper
It was during this period that he
I started his pub’ications, which devel
oped' until they received national rec
i ognition. His first paper was devot
ied to the promulgation of the Popu
lists’ party views, arid in 1905 he es
tablished the famous Tom Watson
magazine, in which he attacked the
Romai Catholic Church for a num
ber of years. This publication first
was issued in New York.
The Jeffersonian magazine and the
Weekly Jeffersonian/ followed as his
next publication. During the war
these two papers were ordered sus
pended by the United States govern
ment owing to Watson’s opposition
to the draft law and vigourous attacks
or. the other war policies of the govern
ment.
nis Works
As an author, Watson’s best known
work was “The Story of France,”
which was used in the schools of
France. Among his other works wera
“The Life of Thomas Jefferson,” “The
Life of Napoleon,” “The Lire and
Times of Thomas Jefferson, ‘Beth
any,” a study and story of the eld
South; “The Life and Times of An
drew Jackson.” “Handbook of Poli
tics and Economics” and "Life and
Speeches of Thomas B. Watson.”
The Sentinel
“The Sage of McDuffie.” as he was
knoi?n by His followers throughout
the state, built up his polit'eal
strength through his publications.
When the government stopped his two
ropers during the war, he soon was
publishing the Columbia Sentinel.
This weekly paper has been devoted
MONTGOMERY FARMERS
STANDING BY COTTON POOL
News from the state offices of the
Farmers Co-operative Cotton Market
ing Association in Atlanta brings the
information th'tt Montgomery county
is making one of th best showings
in the state in the matter of stand
ing by the association. Os about 130
farmers who >or tracted with the as
sociation, more than 100 farmers have
delivered cotton to the association.
More than 1000 bales of cotton be
longing to members of the association
are now stored at the Vidalia Tobacco
Warehouse and Manager McArthur
expects in a short time to have fully
1500 bales in the warehouse. The
cotton comes principally from Toombs
and Montgomery counties.
The members of the association in
Montgomery have organized by nam
ing W. C. McAllister, chairman; J.
!M. D. McGregor, vice-chairman; T.
! B .Conner, secretary-treasurer. The
executive committee consists of Hugh
Peterson, F. M. Mcßae and F. L.
Mcßae.
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CHANCE FOR TWO BOYS
TO GET TRIP TO ATLANTA
As annonuced some time ago,
Montgomery county is entitled to send
two boys to the Southeastern Fair in
Atlanta as guests of the Fair Associ
ation and in connection with the Ex
tension Department of the State Col
lege ofi Agriculture.
This plan has been in effect for
I several years, and on each occasion
j two boys from this county have taken
j the trip to t-heir pleasuer and benefit,
j To qualify, a boy must be a member
| of the pig club or boys corn club of
j the county and be actively interested
j in the work.
In addition to this, the boys will be
• required to stand an examination.
This will be given by County Agent
Tyre at his office in the court house
in Mt. Vernon, October 9th, at 2:30
in the afternoon.
This is a rare opportunity for two
bbys to spend a week in Atlanta du
ring the Southeastern Fair without ex
pense, aside from the fee of $5.00 for
incidentals. Boys must be between
the ages of 15 and 18.
Let the boys see Mr. Tyre on Oc
tober 9th, or sooner, and get the de
tails. The week’s school opens in
Atlanta October 17th, and the winners
of the trip should plan to reach At
lanta by the 16th. Each boy must
take with him a pair of blankets or
quilts, pillow and pillow case, if he
wants them, tooth brush, towels, cake
of soap, comb and brush, pair of
overalls and raincoat.
Those going will purchase a round
trip ticket to Atlanta, and the Fair
Association will refund this money on
his arrival in Atlanta.
to discussion of state and national
politics and during the senator's resi- J
dence in Washington often contained
accounts of his daily record in the
senate.
In his campaign in 1920 Watson
was epposedjiy Senator Hoke Smith
and Governor Hugh M. Dorsey. Wat
son left his home in Thomson and
made a state-wide speaking tour.
This was the first time in several
years he had appeared on the platform
and in each county he was heard by
hundreds of persons. He denounced
the Wilson administration and the j
records of Senator Smith and Gov
ernor Dorsey.
Arrested
During the latter part of his cam
paign he was arrested and" charged
with disouderly conduct at Buford.
Later r.he charges were dismissed
In 191 i Watson was indicted in the 1
federal court at Augusta, on the |
charge of semUn.r olrtene ma , t">r*l
through the mails. He appeared as!
chief counsel in his defense and'
charged that the indictment was the
result of his attack on Catholicism,
There were many stormy court
room scenes during the trial, which
resulted in his acquittal.
His History
Senator Watson was born in Colum
bia county, Geongia, September 5,
1850, the son of John S. and Ann Eliza
Watson. He studied two years at
?dercer University and later taught
school. In 1875 he was admitted to
the bar and practiced in Thtomson.
He was a member of the Georgia
house of representaives in 1882-83.
NUMBER 39
MI. VEM HIST
TO DISI. EDITORS
TWELFTH DISTRICT PRESS AS
SOCIATION WILL BE ENTER
TAINED BY MR. AND MRS. H.
B. FOLSOM FOR THE DAY.
Mt. Vernon will tomorrow enter
tain the Twelfth District Press Asso
ciation, and quite a number of the
weekly editors of the district and their
wives are expected. This is the
meeting which was to have been held
in Mt. Vernon in August, but which
was deferred on account of the ab
sence of Representative Folsom.
No morning session will be held, on
account of most of the visitors driv
ing through and not reaching here in
time. They art expected to stop first
at the Montgomery Monitor office for
a handshaking and the usual fraternal
pow-wow.
During the noon hour the party will
be entertained with a luncheon at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Fol
som, in which Editor and Mrs. N. C.
Napier will be joint hosts.
The business session will be held at
the court house in the early afteinoon,
and the following general program
will be observed:
Meeting called to order by the pres
ident .
Welcome address by Mr. D. W.
Folsom.
Response to welcome address by
President C. D. Rountree.
Reading minutes of last session.
Reports of committees.
Enrollment of new members.
New business.
Talk by Editor J. L. Herring of
Tifton— ‘ How to Keep Job Work at
Home.”
Round table discussion, of problems
and report of committee on job print
ing prices.
Talk by President A. M. Gates of
Brewton-Parker Institute.
Trip to Oconee river bridge, etc.
The officers of the association are
C. D. Rountree, Wrightsvilld Head
light, president: T. L. Bailey, Cocn
ran Journal, secretary and treasurer.
There are a number of district as
sociations in the state, and it is plan
ned to make the Twelfth foremost in
usefulness to its members and the
newspaper profession of this part of
the state.
TOCMBS DELEGATES NAMED
TO STATE CONVENTION
The following persons have been
named delegates and alternates from
Toombs county to the State Conven
tion to be held at Macon next Wednes
day, October 4th: Delegates, J. B.
Johnson, Dess Gray, Dr. W. F. Pea
cock, Dr. L. H. Darby, W. E. Brown,
H. T. Newton, W. O. Williams, H. R.
Yandle, Mrs. I. H. Corbitt, Mrs W E
Walker, Mrs A. F. Sawyer, Mrs. J.
McMann. Alternates, J. L. Sutton, C.
N. Walker, W J DeLoacb, F. L. M»-
Collough, G. C. Smith, G. C. Brantley,
R. A. Peavy, W G. Bell, W. P. C Smith,
Dr J. K. Hall, W. H. Harrison, N. C.
Napier.
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VIDALIA W. B. M. U. NOTES.
The ladies of the Vidalia W. B. M.
U. nut at the church Tuesday after
noon, and a very interesting and ben
eficial program was rendered.
?drs. T. R. Lee, acting as leader,
gave a general survey of H >me Mis
sion work: Mesdames J. T. B. An
derson, V. B. Herring, J. R. Miller,
T. I* Lee, G. C. Smith and J. A.
Bland were appointed delegates to at
tend the annual meeting to be held
in Mt. Vernon Friday.
HEMSTITCHING.
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Hemstitching and picoting, all thread
furnished, 8c and 10c per yard.
MRS. L. C. GIJSSON,
At D. C. Harris’ Store
ts Vidalia, Ga,
NEW SHIPMENTS OF,
STYLISH HATS RECEIVED
I have just received a new shipment
of F'all Hats in the latest styles and
shapes, and invite 'you to call and in
spect my line before making your se
lection. You will firvl a wide variety
in shapes and materials, all reasonably
priced.
MHSS ANNIE STONE,