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Telephone Number Twenty-thre^
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Mrs. Ava Ophelia Mathews of
Jacksonville, Fla., announces en
gagement of her daughter, s Ma|ry
Editha, to William Juergan Corne
lius of Asheville, N. C. The wedding
will be solemnized at an early AifiWf*
No cards.
The above announcement will be
read with interest, both Miss Math
ews and her mother being well known
here as well as having a number of
relatives in this city
Bridge Club Entertained
By Mr*. Leroy Meadow*
With spring flowers in pastel
shades used in a profusion through
out the house as decorations, Mrs.
Leroy Meadows entertained the mem
bers of the Round Dozen Bridge
Club in a most delightful way on I
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. L. B. Godbee won top score.
Those invited were: Mesdames \
Timmerman, Ragan, Brundage, God
bee, Austin, Jenkins, Carter, Lewis,
Macon, Mosley, Bracken, and Misses
Louise Mathews, Lula Mae Leveritt, j
Ruby Darby, Annie Wicker and Mat
tele Lewis.
Mis* Leveritt Entertains
Young Matrons’ Bridge Club
Miss Lula Mae Leveritt entertain
the members of the young matrons’
Bridge Club and a few friends last
Friday afternoon at her home on
Church street.
Throughout the rooms where the
guests were received and where the
card tables were placed, quantities of ;
jonquils intermingled with foliage,
were used for decorations
Miss Louise Mathews made top
score and was presented with a lovely
handkerchief.
Following the game a delicious
salad course with hot coffee was serv
ed. Miss Mary Thomas assisted Miss
Leveritt in entertaining.
Those playing were: Mrs. Arnie
Rushing, Mrs. Clyde Jenkins, Mrs.
Bob McNatt, Mrs. N. O. Carter, Mrs.
Clements, Mrs Leroy Meadows, Mrs.
Hal Macon, Mrs. Gould Mosley and
Miss Louise Mathews, Miss Ruby Dar
by, Miss Ila McLemore, Miss Mattele
Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs Johnson
Host At B. Y. P. U. Social
A very enjoyable occasion of this
"week was the B. Y. P. U Social
given by Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Johnson
at their home on Mclntosh street.
After the guests arrived the enter
tainment committee, composed of
Mrs. C. W. Sanders, Miss Bertha Wil
lets, Miss Mattele Lewis, Miss Eliza
beth Price, Miss James and Miss Myr
tice Johnson, started the games. *
After the games ice cream . and.
cake was served with a red cafidjt
heart as a favor
Wa*hington Tea To Be
Given By Bronte Study Club
On Thursday evening, February
22, at 8:00 o’clock, The Bronte Study
Club will give a “Washington Tea”
at the home of and Mrs. C. E. Adams
on Durden street. A musical pro
gram intersperced with readings will
be rendered and the husbands and
friends of the members are cordially
invited to attend. A silver offering
will be taken for the Tallulah Falls
school.
Interesting Program I*
Given At Bethany Home
Circle No. 2 gave the following
program on Tuesday p. m. February
16, at the Bethany Home, Mrs. Brun
dage being in charge of the program:
Duet —Mrs Brice and Miss Eliza
beth Price.
Scripture Reading, 23 Psalm—Miss
Mary Grace Price.
Prayer—Mrs Miller.
Short talk by Dr. Brewton.
Solo, “In the Sweet Bye and Bye”
—Lorene Hall.
Reading, “Happiness”—Mrs. J. C.
Price.
Duet —Misses Mnrgaret Brice and
Mary Edna Gunter
Mr. Sikes made a few remarks
relative to the home and its workings.
Solo-Miss Mary Ethel Thompson.
Closed with prayer by Mrs. T. R.
Lee . ’! ’ ( ,
GEORGIA
SffifSWittA ISJaI
BRONTE STUDY CLUB CHOSE
IT AS THEIR TOPIC FOR THE
MFETING OF LAST WEEK. BE
LOW WE REPRODUCE AN EX
CELLENT PAPER ON GEORGIA,
BY MISS CLAUDIA MCDONALD,
READ AT THIS MEETING.
Pride and gratitude have always
mineled in the emotions, with which
Georgia has contemplated the career
an dcherished the name of Ogle
thoroe But almost two centuries
elapsed before an adequate monu
ment to the great humantanan was
reared to the Sty which he founded.
At last, under bright skies, on No
4v©»»ber 23, 1910, in the city of Sa
” wannah, a superb bronze statue, sur
mounting a pedestal of granite, was
unveiled in Chippewa Square.
(The total cost was $38,000 00, of
wmbfi sum the State of Georgia and
the City of Savannah each contribut
ed $15,00, while the remained was
,J®ised by patriotic organizations.
Facing the enemies of the colonies
the statue of Oglethorpe looks toward
the south and west. The great sol- 1
dier and civilian is portrayed in the 1
typical English dress of the period,
appropriate to the rank and station
in which he moved. On the granite
pedestal is a bronze tablet bearing
the inscription: “Erected by the
State of Georgia, the City of Savan- 1
nah and the Patriotic Societies of
the State to the memory of the great
Soldier, Eminent Statesman and Fa
mous Philanthropist General Jamets
Edward Oglethorpe, who, in this city j
on the 12th day of February, 1733,
founded and established the Colony
of Georgia.”
Georgia justly claims the first
Trans-Atlanta steamer (the good ship
Anne) which sailed from Savannah.
2. The first Sunday School in
| America, founded by Wesley. ,
i 3. The first orphanage, founded by,
Whitfield. I
4. The oldest State University in
America
! 5. The two oldest chartered col
leges for women in the world, (Wes
j leyan and Bessie Tift).
6. The discovery of anesthesia,
Crawford W. Long.
7. The Vice President o fthe Con
federacy, (A. H. Stevens).
1 Georgia was the fourth state to
ratify the Constitution She furnish
ed America’s greatest lyric poet, j
(Lanier). Gave to American Litera
ture its most unique character (Joel
Chandler Harris), and was the first
1 state to have a Poet Laureate’
(Stanton).
Through Mrs. Lowe of Savannah,
started the great Girl Scout move
-1 ment.
, Today, Georgia is the largest
j state east of the Mississippi river. It
has an area of 59,475 square miles
and the census of 1920 shows a popu
lation of nearly three millions.
There are three divisions: North,
South and Middle Georgia. Os the
the nine climates in the United
States, eight are represented in Geor
gia.
The soil is generally fertile, mak
ing it largely an agricultural state
Georgia watermelons, peaches, sugar
cane and other products are very
widely known. Georgia is now doing
what is called “intensive farming”;
that is, planting less cotton, fertiliz
ing it more highly and cultivating it
better. The statistics of the United
States show that in 1924, the increase i
in the value of agricultural products
in Georgia exceeded that of any
other state in the Union.
In the southern part of the State,
there are large forests ow long leaf
pine, which furnish excellent lumber, ,
tar, pitch, turpentine and rosin. The
northern section has considerable
mineral resources such as aluminum,
coal, iron, marble, slate and some
gold and precious stones. Georgia
stands in the front of the southern
states in manufacturing.
There :s a wonderful future ahead
of Georgia and the entire Cotten
Belt in cotton manufacturing. We
raise the cotton; we have the coal and
the iron and we have an abundance
•of- hydro-electric power.
We have intelligent labor and a
climate unsurpassed. And during
the past few years dairying, stock and
poultry raising, as well as the pecan
industry, have proven quite an asset, i
Our transportation facilities are
excellent We have a net work of
railroads radiating in every direction.
We have four good harbors (along
our coast.
There is a tremendous road build
ing program started, which takes in
practicallg the entire state, and in
which Georgia now has $43,000,000
dollars invested. At the present rate
of increase, what may we expect
within the next three years, without
the state incurring one dollar of !
bonded debt if we will but co-oper- j
ate.
Blest be thy land, fair Georgia,
From the mountains to the sea;
The purpose of whose founders was,
i The opprest from wrongs to free.
I Not for themselves, but for others,
Was the way their motto ran,
! And in the path of mercy
Did they early lead the van.
Our fathers sought the new world,
| . With a.motive grand and high;
And faith in God hath ever,
i Led our hopes unto the sky.
And so on strong foundations,
We see stately columns rise
! As symbols of those virtues,
That our Georgia people prize.
AA soldier guards the portals,
| While a sunburst from above
Illumes arch and pillars,
! With God’s all protecting love.
God grant our solons wisdom,
i Let strict Justice hold the scales,
' And Moderation guide the hand,
That must make the law prevail.
To both her mottoes, faithful
Will our Georgia ever stand
While to her whole great union,
She pledges heart and hand.
Then hail to thee, our Georgia,
* For of the “Old Thirteen”,
I No brighter star shone ever,
Or ever shall be seen.
Mrs. E. M. Auld and little daught
-1 er, Denise, have returned home after j
spending a few days in Alamo as
| guests of Mrs Auld’s parents, Dr.
and Mrs. Hall.
i Miss Rushie Brazell spent Thurs
day in Savannah.
! “*Miss~ Lillian Morgan returned
1' spent last week buying spring milli
■ home Sunday from Atlanta where she
i nery for the Smart Shop.
Mrs. Inez Glisson and Miss Eliza
’ beth Hudson left Thursda yfor Au- J
Mr*. Roscoe Ledford, Editor
gusta to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Carl Hodges left
Monday for Hagan, where they will
make their future home.
Mrs R. E. L. Mann of Cedar
Crossing was in the city shopping
Thursday. •
i
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Walker had as
their guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. R.
L Dominy, Mr. J. B. Donaldson and
Miss Evelyn Donaldson of Dublin.
I Miss Lillian Morgan and Miss Paul
ine Vickers are now at home at the
New Vidalia Hotel.
I -
I Frreds of Mr. H. A. Deen will re
gret to learn he is ill at his home on
i Church street.
Mr. and. Mrs. CJias. H. Hudson had
as their guest this week their daught
er, Mrs Phillips pi Elza.
I - -
j Mr. Marion Breedlove of Swains
boro spent the week-end here as the
guest of his grand-parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Darby.
Mrs. Geo. Rountree and Miss Em
i mie Roberts returned Monday after
’ spending several days in Tampa, Fla.,
as the guests of their brother, Mr.
Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Davis and
daughter, Jeanette, spent the week
end in Wrightsville.
Miss Annie Stone has returned
from Atlanta, where she went to buy
spring millinery.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McColsky have
gone to Lake City, Fla, to be the
guests of their daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Woodward
spent the week-end in Macon.
Mrs. S. D. Morris spent a few days
last week in Midville a sthe guest of
relatives
Miss Julia Wicker has returned
from Sandersville, where she has
been in the hospital for several
j weeks.
Miss Juanita Legg arrived Sunday
from Atlanta and will spend several
months here with Mrs. J. E. Thomp
son.
Mrs. J. M. Hall of Soperton is the
guest of Mrs. J. E Thompson.
Friends of Mrs. C. W. Somers, who
j has been ill at the Vidalia Hospital
for several weeks will be glad to
learn that her condition is somewhat
improved.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O Donovan, Mrs.
J. B. Warthen and little son, Billy,
have returned to their home in Mican
opy, Fla., after spending a few days
i here as the guests of friends and rela
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hackel have as
their guest Mrs. Emanuel Hackel of
Brunswick, formerly of this city
Col. H. H. Elders of Reidsville was
a business visitor to Vidalia Tuesday.
Presbyterian Church *
(City Hall)
Do you treat Sunday as the “Lord’s
Day,” or your day? Is it to be de
voted to His Business of your’s? How
do you spend its hours as a rule, in
His service, or in your own; in help
ful fellowship with others, or in mere
ease and self-indulgence? Let us
be careful what we do and how we
do it on His Day; it is a Holy Day, a
day set apart for God’s use, a day of
separation from evil and of devotion
to what’s good and right. Let us try
and so regard it; for blessing is at
tached to its holy observance, but a
curse upon its profanition to our own
selfish purposes.
10 A. M. is the hour for the Bible
school. Go to it, you need it.
At 11 a. m. Dr. Martindale will
preach on “The Need of Young Life
| Today.” Sunday is the close of
“Loyalty Week” throughout our Gen
eral Assembly, be it does not
pass without some sacrificial offering
for the work of the Lord through our
Benevolent Agencies. At 7:30 p. m.
I the message will -be one of “The
Great Doctrines of Christianity.”
Study 12, “The Second Coming of
Chrits: The fact of His coming. For
and with whom is He coming? How is
He coming? When is He coming?
For what is He coming? Are you
living as though you expected your
Lord to come? What is the practi
cal value of faith in the Lord’s com
ing again?
Sunday 3 p. m. Christian Endeavor.
4:15 p. m. Mass Meeting for Revival.
Tuesday at 4 p. m. the Woman’s
' Auxiliary will have its regular meet-
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
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MILLINERY
OPENIN G
Wednesday, Feb. 23
Miss Annie Stone
Mrs. J. E. Thompson
Smart Shop
Farmers Give
Own Diagnosis
Radio Course Listeners Tell
What Is Matter With
South’s Agriculture.
;ip ROW less cotton —more cows,
vJ sows and hens” is the new
found creed of the southeast farmer,
according to the first answers received
to the ‘‘final exam” given at the close
>f the first radio short course In ag- i
rlculture broadcast from WSB, At
lanta, by the Sears-Roebuck Agricul
tural Foundation in co-operation with
the Soil Improvement Committee of
the National Fertilizer Association. j
Ten questions submitted to the stu
dents at the close of the course show
that the farmer of the south Atlantic
states has been won away front the
Idea tiiat he must grow Just one crop
cotton. “Grow divcrslfl"' 1 crops that
will feed the family, the stock and
the land; let cotton be grown as a
cash crop and uot mnde to support
the entire farm,” is the way In which
one of these radio students sums up
ihe situation.
It was the aim of the short course
to sell the farmer < f the southeast the
idea of raising enough live stock at
least to feed his family, raising enough
grain and hay to feed the live stock,
and enough cover crops to replace In
the soli the elements which are taken
from It year by year by the contlnu
ous growing of crops.
The answers to this radio examina
tion Indicate that the farmer of the
southeast has learned to pin solid
faith In the advice of his county
agent; that he is getting tired of gam
bling with one crop farming, and that
he is going In for pure-bred seed, as
well as pure-bred cows, hogs and
chickens.
Three cash prizes are to be awarded
to the three best examination papers
submitted to the Foundation, and
announcement of the winners will be
made from the Atlanta radio Btatlon
February 7.
CUT COT™,
EXPEJTJOVISES
D. W. Watkins of Clemson
College Tells Farmers
Need of Reduction.
ALTER TENANT SYSTEM
THERE should be a decrease in the
total cotton acreage to restore a
bidance to our faming system, ac
cording to D. W. Watkins, assistai.f
extension director, Clemson colleg *,
S. C., who discussed the “Cutting of
the Cotton Acreage” in the Rad o
Short Course over WSB, Atlanta. This
i two weeks' course for fanners of the
southeast was conducted by the Sears-
Roebuck Agricultural Foundation In
co-operation with the Soli Improve
ment Committee of the National Fer
tilizer Association*
“Not only should there be a de
’ crease in 1927, but in future years,”
said Mr. Watkins, “but when it comes
to saying who is to do tho reducing
we find there are several different
classes and conditions of farmers with
whjch to deal. There are the farmers,
all too few, who own their land, farm
intelligently and while they are set
back In years like 1926, manage to keep
their heads above water and continue
their Independent, self-supporting way.
This class already produces 80 to 90
per cent of their living on the farm.
They do much of their Own work and
utilize labor saving machinery. They
will not have to reduce as much as
others.
"It is the duty of the landowners
and others responsible for financing
agriculture to bring about a different
tenant system. Tenants should be
led and required to give more atten
tion to producing a living for them
selves and to soil and farm improve
ment. This will automatically reduce
their cotton acreage and will be
beneficial to themselves and land
owners.
fil
ing.
Special Conference: At 8 p. m.,
Wednesday, the Rev. A. F. Carr, D.
D., and Rev. L. A. Davis, of Savan-
Conference,” and all members of the
nah, will be here for a “Stewardship
church are earnestly urged to come
out and hear these gentlemen on vital
themes to the Church. On Thursday
at 7:30 p. m. they will hold a similar
Conference at Aimwell Church for the
membership of that church and their
i friends. Let us exert ourselves to
give them an audience worthwhile.
t
Wine 384 Years Old
Which is the oldest bottle of win,*-
to the world? As far as authenticated
records can settle this question <he !
palm undoubtedly goes to u bottle ot \
Stelnwein— a Bavarian hock —which
bears on its label the date 1.140. The
884-yenr-oid bottle and Its precipe?
contents, which Henry VIII might
have sampled, are in the possession
of a London wine expert.
Athletic Elephant
▲ Munchausen story of fish that
climb trees caused old Captain Long
chalk, as a London dally calls him, to
retort with this: Be was shooting
elephants In Africa when one of ths
herd, slightly wounded, dived Into a
lake. The captain pursued him with
a landing net, but before be could
reach him the elephant tore up a palm
tree and, using it as a vaulting pole,
disappeared In a succession of high
jumps.—Youth’s Companion.
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Doubtful Record
The greatest age at which a man W
said to have become s father la oaf
hundred and two. This wqs stated M
he the age of Thomas Beatty of Drab*
{eondra, near Dublin, when his
tst-boED came into the world.
Lessens Wear on Rubbert
Tour rubbers will last longer If you
put a half-inch layer of crushed tissue
paper into the heels. The paper forms
s soft cushion for the hard heei of the
■hoe and thus lessens the wear on tM
rubber.
Sassafras in Medicine
The roots of sassafras very early tt
American history became an Important
article of medicine. It n sometlmai
called the “ague tree” as a decoctli*
of Its bark was supposed to cure that
disease. Sa*>»afras tea, an Infusion
of the young slioots and roots, has long
been a favorite remedy for colds and
a tonic, being a sudorific and a stUntt*
laut.