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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XX
THE KHANS NAME
OFFICERS FOR 1922
HEAR INTERESTING ADDRESS
BY D. A. HOLMES, NOW LO
CATED AT VLADIVOSTOK NO
MEETING NEXT WEEK.
The Vidalia Kiwanis Club closed its
year’s work on Monday evening with
election of officers for the new year.
Those elected are: D. G. Pattillo, Im
mediate Past President and Trustee;
N. C. Napier, President; Joe Hackel,
Vice-President; H. H. Powell, Treas
urer; and the following as Directors:
T. W. Timmerman, J. T. Ragan, J.
B. YVarthen, F. L. Huie, E. T. Mc-
Bride, J. H. Jackson, and Dr. T. C.
Thompson. The new officials will be
installed at the New Year’s meeting,
as no meeting will be held cn Mon
day evening of next week, a vacation
having been declared for the Christ
mas holidays.
In addition to the installation of of
ficers at the New Year’s meeting, it
will also be Ladies Night at the club
and a special committee has been ap
pointed to assist the standing committee
in making it a big night.
As a special attraction for tne meet
ing on last Monday night Mr. D. A.
Holmes, formerly of this place but
nos located at Vladivostok, Siberia,
gave a very instructive talk on the
section of the Orient with which he
k* is familiar, having been in business
for the past two years. Mr.
Holmes called attention to the fact
that Siberia is larger in territory than
the continent of North America, and as
rich in natural resources, with only
ten million inhabitants at the present
time, of which six millions are na
tives of the country, a people corres
ponding very much to the Esquimo of
the North American continent. The
others are mixed, with only a very
small percentage of Americans, most
of these Americans having moved to
that country in the past year to work
concessions secured from the
Siberian government by Mr. Holmes.
Concerning the government now in
power in Siberia, Mr. Holmes stated
that thiough various vicissitudes, the
Bolshiviki are in charge at this time
and while much can be said of the
impracticability of Communirm, he
called atttention to the fact that this
form of government is all that is left
in that much worried country, and
that some permanent and more pos
[ vsfble form will necessarily have to
1 built on this frame.
Regarding the present torm of gov*
.
Give Mim Something
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In selecting a Christmas remembrance for him, you
can’t go wrong in buying some accessory to fix up
>or make more comfortable his car. We have a
* splendid line including such items as Motor Meters
Radiator Caps, Bumpers,' Steering Wheels, Step
Plates, and Scores of others.
t Up=to=Date Service
i-. } Our service station is now well organized and we
will be glad to do your next work. Skilled me
chanics and prices t *e reasonable and we guarantee
all our work.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU \
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| VIDALIA, GEORGIA j
FALL TERM COMES
TO AIUNO FRIDAY
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY TO COVER
TWO WEEKS, SCHOOL RESUM
ING MONDAY, JAN. B—TEACH
ERS LEAVE FOR HOMES.
The fall term of the Vidalia Public
School will be brought to a close on
Friday afternoon, but the last three
days of the week will be devoted to
mid-term examinations, the pupils hav
ing made over ninety, however, willl
be exempted and their vacation will
be started on Wednesday.
The fall term has been very suc
cessful, the largest enrollment in the
history of the school having been re
corded. The spring term will begin
on Monday, January Bth, thus giving
the students and faculty a full two
weeks vacation. The members of the
faculty will for the most part spend
the Christmas holidays away from the
city.
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er.nment it is said that those in charge
have established peace and maintain it
vigorously. They recognize property
rights, both of their own and foreign
citizens, and have validated claims and
concessions held from the former gov
ernment. .
Regarding Japan, which country for
merly had a very considerable influ
ence in Siberia, and through which
country Mr. Holmes has done exten
sive travelling, and where he main
tains a business office, he thinks that
most of our politicians and diplomats
have taken them at about their own
valuation, which is very high. Japan
has for the past seventy years ex
panded very strongly, the govern
ment of Japan having fostered Japan
ese trade wherever and whenever the
merchants would go. Much has been
said of their claim for additional ter
ritory for their expansion, but atten
tion was called to Manchuria and Ko
rea, where the Japanese have special
privileges, and of the Northern Is
lands of the Japanese Empire, which
at the present time have very few in
habitants, and of Formosa and some
Southern Islands, which are owned
by the Japanese Empire, and which
lands would take care of a considera
ble expansion if the Japanese were
content with what they already have,
but their views seem to include the
Hawaiian Islands and California, where
they car. make a better showing, ow
! ing to the difference in standards of
j living, to which the Japanese do not
j attempt to approach, preferring to live
VIDALIA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1922
LOCATING ORPHANAGE
NOW UP TO PEOPLE
REV. T. E. SIKES REVIEWS THE
PLANS FOR HOME HERE—THE
COMMITTEE NOW READY FOR
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO SITE.
The subject of an orphanage for
Vidalia has been several times men
tioned in our local paper recently, but
this announcement is to speak more 1
definitely and to make some explana
tions which are very important to the
success of the movement.
We had a meeting here some timei
oga, of a special church committee,]
to look over the locations suggested,!
and to discuss future plans, etc. This!
committee, after eliminating some un-!
desirable sites, left this feature of the]
question to be overlooked and passed
upon by a committee of the town’s
business men. This committee made
its survey last week, as was reported
in last week’s paper.
As suggested in a previous state
ment, the Primitive Baptists of Geor
gia are seeking to locate an orphanage
somewhere within the state. They
want to locate it at a convenient point
and among people who will appreciate
it sufficiently to help them to locate
the home in their midst. It will likely
require approximaely four or five
thousand dollars to procure suitable
on a lower basis and save the dif
ference.
Regarding American business in the
Orient, Mr. Holmes stated that in his
opinion the best way to expand per
manently would be for the prospect
ive managers to go out and take a
two-years course in the language and
habits of the foreign country, at the
end of which, if the man feels capa
ble, should be given full charge of
the territory which he has covered.
The talk of Mr. Holmes was very
much enjoyed by the club, as his ca
reer in Siberia has been watched with
much interest here. Since leaving
the Siberian Expeditionary force,
with which he served as Provost of
ficer for the city, of Vladivostok, he
has acquired valuable gold mining
concessions »rd has open a number of
trading posts through which he sells
American merchandise and rations,
and acquires and exports Siberian furs
besides operating some fisheries.
Some of the furs are scld in England
and France, but the bulk of them are
sold in New York, and a large ship
ment is now on the way to that mar
ket for disposal.
Official Organ City of Vidalia
N. 1. CROMARTIE IS
ASSIGNED 10 VIDALM
AGRICULTURAL AGENT FOR THE
GEORGIA & FLORIDA RY. WILL
MAKE HEADQUARTERS HERE—
WAS FORMER COUNTY AGENT.
Mr. H. L. Cromartie, formerly the
county demonstration agent for this
county, but who has been in other
fields for some time, has been re
tained by the Georgia & Florida Rail
way as Agricultural Agent and has
been assigned to this territory. Mr.
Cromartie will have his headquarters
at Vidalia and will attend to all his
duties from this office. His labor will
for the present be directed especially
toward developing thfc agricultural re
sources of the territory adjacent to
the G. & F. road and will include
attention to cotton and tobacco and
potato crops, as well as any other
crop that is well adapted to this sec
tion.
Mr. Cromartie is well known here
ar.d is very popular. He is a mots
thorough and efficient agricultural
agent, having made a study of con
ditions and crops in this section, as
location, with the farm lands neces
sary. We new come to you, not as
“beggars,” but with a fair proposi
tion to help us to locate this insti
tution in Vidalia. It will mean much
to our town. Thousands of dollars
are to be sent in from over the state
immediately, with which to erect the
buildings and equip the home. Then
an annual support for the institution
all of which will be spent here in our
town.
If the home is located here, it will
bring hundreds of people to visit us
year by year. The name “Vidalia”
will be talked among our people all
over Georgia, and Vidalia’s advantages
will be declared throughout the state
and beyond state limitaions.
In consideration of these facts it is
only a business proposition—a sate
investment to ‘buy this location and
turn it over to the trusetees for build
ing the home. Then we will have the
consciousness of having helped in a
good cause. Every year will bring to
us renewed memories of the good
work we did at the close of this year
of 1922. . Just *a few days back I
learned that Claxton had proposed to
furnish the location if we would build
there. But we of Vidalia want it at
this point. Will youhelp us to 1 >cate
it in Vidalia? Several buriness men
of our town have assured us that
Vidalia p«t>ple will furnish the loca'
tion. We are now ready for your
subscriptions. Let hs have your
Christmas gift, your new year’s of
fering.
T. E. SIKES.
Announcement
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We are moving to the old Ford stand on Meadows
street—recently vacated by the Meadows Buick Co.
In making this change, we expect to be better |
equipped for taking care of our customers than g
ever before. * I
The patronage that you have extended to us during |
the past year has been greatly appreciated and it is
our desire to merit an even greater share of your
business in the New Year that is just before us.
We wish to extend the Season’s Happiest Greetings
and wish for you a most Prosperous! New Year.
Very sincerely yours,
McNATT MOTOR CO.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA
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(. 8 F. THRU IBM
INAUGURATED SIMM
THE BONAIR SPECIAL HANDLING
THROUGH PULLMANS FROM
AUGUSTA TO JACKSONVILLE
GIVES SPLENDID SERVICE.
The Georgia & Florida Railway be
gun the operation of its new through
train, with Pullmans, on the 17th, the
first run being made without incident
and running on time from Augusta to
Jacksonville.
The name of the new train is the
Bonair Special, and is run by the G.
& F. in connection with the G. S.
& F., which handles the train between
Valdosta and Jacksonville.
Officers of the road seem well sat
isfied with the patronage of their pet
train and patrons' along the line are
also iterested, as this train permits
of travel from any point on the road
making a pleasant trip either to Au
gusta or Jacksonville.
Over half a million dollars has re
cently been spent by the G. & F.
people in getting the road ready for
this train, the roadbed from Augusta
to Keysville having practically been
rebuilt and"heavy rail laid.
The entire line of the road has
been gone over and heavy grade
ironed down so that passage will be
smooth.
The through pullman train has long
been advocated by patrons of the G.
& F. and it is with much pleasure
that they hear of its installation by
the management, who have put their
road to a heavy outlay in order to in
augurate this service.
HEMSTITCHING.
Hemstitching and Picoting. All the
thread furnished. 8 and 10c yard.
MRS. R. M. STANLEY,
At Vidalia Hardware Co. Store,
ts. Vidalia, Ga.
well as having practical knowledge of
farming.
I Since coming on the job here Mr.
Cromartie has already secured com
mitments and listed acreage sufficient
to warrant over a million and a half
pounds of tobacco for the coming
season, and it is quite likely that this
acreage will be doubled by the first
part of January, when preparations
v/ill be started in earnest to make
the crop. A tobacco sales warehouse
will be operated here by an experi
enced tobacco saleman. and most of
this volume will be marketed at he
Vidalia warehouse. '
Mr. Cromartie, it will
be married next week and will bring
his bride to Vidalia, where they will
be at home in apa.tments at the home
of Mr. S. B. Meadows on Jackson
street.
NUMBER 51
TOBACCO ACRGAGE IS
aaa—y ac:--.
GREATLnNCREASED
IN THIS SECTION, ACCORDING
TO H. L. CROMARTIE, TOBACCO
EXPERT IN EMPLOYMENT OF
THE G. & F. RAILWAY.
According to Mr. H. L. Cromart ; e,
tobacco expert in the empoyment of
the Georgia & Florida Railway, the
tobacco acreage in this section will be
greatly increased the coming season.
Between Vidalia and the River it
is expected that at least 250 acres
will be put in tobacco, Mr. Cromar
tie already having 204 acres signed
up. The growers, address and num
ber of acres each farmer has agreed
to plant, is given below:
E. L. Meadows, Vidalia, 26.
S. B. Meadows, Vidalia, 10.
B. P. Jackson, Vidalia, 8.
K. M. Johnson, Alston, 10.
A. T. Johnson, Alston, 20.
Miles Johnson, Alston, 20.
Dr. J. H. Dees, Alston, 25.
M. Dees, Alston, 5. • I
S. J. Bland, Uvalda, 10.
Luther Johnson, Alston, 10.
T. O. Walker, Alston, 10.
J C. Clifton, Alston, 5.
W. O. Barnes, Alston, 20.
J. E. Jones, Uvalda, 10.
Jack Jones, Uvalda, 5. ! r
Carlos Johnson, Uvalda, 5.
R. J. Waller, Uvalda, 5
J. R. Hutchings Writes.
To the Planters of this Section:
Tobacco has sold well all the way
through this crop. The state of North
Carolina will average close to $30.00
per hundred. The market I was on
averaged up to Thanksgiving day for
over a million pounds $29.08. The
j tobacco trade likes Georgia tobacco
and needs it, and I am sure tobacco
! will sell well next year. With the
Chinese crop having recently Ibeen
• half of it destroyed by frost,, and the
Turkish tobaqco almost put out of bus
i iness by the recent uprising and des
! truction around Smyrna by the Turks,
‘ America will have to furnish more to
bacco than usual, besides the above
losses, the home trade has ir creased
in consumption about 33 per cent in
the last year.
T have a good corps of buyers for
. the Vidalia market promised,
j In the face of the boll weevil des
, truction, I think I can safely advise
, the planters to divide up their crops
and put in some tobacco, and I firmly
believe it will pay well. I am here
now to stay and will assist you all I
can to make a success. You can get
seed here.
1? will try to see you all in a # short
time and give you full instructions.
Sow your seed beds as soon as pos
sible. Yours truly, "it
J. R. HUTCHINGS. '