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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE VOLUME XXV Advance Circulation More Than Double In Campaign KIWANIS MEETING COMPLIMENTARY TO LOCAL NURSES DR. J. W. PALMER OF AILEY j MAKES ADDRESS OF EVEN-1 ING; HIGH SCHOOL ORCHES TRA ADDS TO PROGRAM. The luncheon of the local Kiwanis Club on last Monday evening was complimentary to the corps of nurses from the Vidalia Hospital and includ ing the Vidalia nurses that are not di rectly connected with the hospital. The program committee had pro vided for the High School Orchestra to be on hand for the occasion and this organization added very much to the evening’s entertainment with their selections. “That Old Sweetheart of Mine’,, starring Mark McLemore, was pro educed by Miss Lutie Neese, with the portrayed by charming Members of the Vidalia school facul ty. A very entertaining stunt was a demonstration of an operation, put on by Kiwanians, to show the nurses just how such matters should not be carried out. Dr. J. W. Palmer, of Ailey, who is president of the State Board of Medi cal Examiners; secretary of the Rail way Surgeons’ section of the South ern Medical Association and presi dent of the Twelfth District Medical Association, made the address of the evening. His remarks were well chosen, declaring that he believed in more “taffy” and less “epitaphy.” He proceeded to lay a rather thick, “coat of taffy,” stating that Vidalia m had as go<sd business men as any place; that better professional men in habited the place than in other towns; better doctors and nurses were here than in most place and that he had rather live at Vidalia than at any other place under the sun—Except Ailey 1 Dr. Palmer explained most of the high class citizenship conceded to Vidalia by the fact that the Hospital was located at this point, giving the city an advantage not possessed by ordinary towns, and advised a close association between the Kiwanis Club and the Hospital corps. The General Is Coming!! TELEPHONE CO. LEASES ENTIRE MEADOWS BDLG. BUILDING WILL BE REMODELED TO HOUSE NEW EQUIPMENT TO BE INSTALLED BY AMERI CAN BELL TELEPHONE. The American Bell Telephone Com pany with which is affiliated the Southern Bell operating the exchange at this place, has leased the entire building on Church street, owned by E L. Meadows and recently occupied by the Southern Bell and the Leader and Rosansky depaitment store. This building will be remodelled by the new lessees, the ground floor to house a new equipment which is de signed to build up and to eliminate nate noise on the coper circuits of the American Bell company. The coper circuits are the long distance lines and the equipment will take up every foot of space on the ground r floor and will also require the full k time of an expert operator. The second floor will be occupied by the central office of the Southern Bell company, which has been located there for some years. The lease is of long duration and is on a scale as cending which is a recognition of the sure growth of this city and the en hancement of property values- as time passes. Ochwalkee Creek Bridge Completed i The steel and concrete bride over Ochwalkee cheek, two miles east of Glenwood, has been completed and: accepted by the highway department. The bride is modern in every respect*) being built of steel and concrete. E. M. Wiliams Construction company had the contract at a cost of $17,000. The completion of this bridge and abuttments completes on of the most' MACHINERY FOR STREETS i HAS ARRIVED {factor ydemonstrator will BE HERE TO PUT MACHINERY IN OPERATION. Street machinery, recently bought by the Street and Lane committee of the city council, arrived in Vidalia on Monday of this week and was un loaded from the freight cars. It consists of a street sweeper and a tractor to furnish power and to which may be attached plows, scarifiers or the sweeper. It in a machine with ample power and will be sufficient to keep the paved streets swept and the other streets of the city scraped and in good condition. A factory dem onstrator will put the machinery in commission and leave instructions for its operation. BURGLARS ENTER STORE OF LEADER & ROSANSKY HERE DRESS GOODS AND OTHER MERCHANDISE WEDNESDAY CARRY OFF BIG QUANTITY OF NIGHT. , On Wednesday night of this week, unknown parties entered Leader and Rosansky Department store and carried off a quantity of Dress goods and other merchadise. The entrance was made through the wall from the Building next door which is now being remodelled for the United Five and Ten cent stores. The rob bers cut a hole throug a wall of sheet rock using part of an old drawing, knife and leaving the knife at the hole. The entrance was made easier on account of selecting a room which was cut off in the part back of the store and which when closed made a good hidding place from which to do the cutting as it could not seen from the street. Just how much the loss will be is not known as yet, but the robbers took more than they wanted as some of the merchandise was scattered about on the wrong side of the hole which they cut through which to make en trance and take out the goods. COLONIAL THEATRE Vidalia, Georgia Program Week of Mar. 14th Manday-Tuetday, March 14-15th “Paradise For Two” With Richard Dix. Also Comedy en titled, “‘Loves Hurdles.” Wednesday, March 16th “Bachelor Brides” With Rod Laßocque, Elinor Fair and Julia Faye. Also “Topics of the Day.” Thursday, March 17th “Sweet Daddies” Wfth Charles Murray, George Sidney, 1 Jack Mulhall and Jobyna Ralston. O you “sweet daddies”; see them. Alsa sth chapter of “House Without A Key.” Friday, March 18th “Sunny Side Up” Misi Vera Reynolds takes the lead in this one. ’Nuff said. A snappy little comedy-drama. Also sth chapter of “House Without A Key.” Saturday, March ,19th “The Cowboy Cop” With our old friend Tom Tyler. A rip-roaring, out in the open spaces Western. Comedy is entitled “Soup To Nuts.” Also “Aesop’s Fables.” Positively coming next Monday and Tuesday, March 21 and 22, Harold Lloyd in “HOT WATE.R Say! This! is a “scream.” Admission only 15-35. j Also coming next week A Zane Grey Western, “MAN OF THE FOREST” with our friend Jack Holt. | i important highway links on this high | way, and eliminates the dangers that traffic were subjected to in crossing ove rat this point on the temporary bridge used before the completion of our present modern bridge, j* It is understood that a move is on to have the bridge officially named “Clark’s Bridge” in honor of W. J.- Clark, chief engineer of the highway department, a former Wheeler coun ty citizen. —Wheeler County Eagle. DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B EST COUNTY IN THE STATE. VIDALIA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1927. I Man Harts | f) ABOUT THE PROSPEROUS CITY OF $ | ItMta I QNE of the finest things about Vidalia J& j and one of the most important factors W in the growth of the place is the attitude of a f the citizens toward their city. This attitude $ ir may be termed the “Vidalia Spirit” and at ft J the same time may be likened to a big fam- rM \ ily of brothers and sisters who feel free to *jn J “scrap” among themselves as much as they pr like, but who are immediately mobilized as v ji a “family” when there is need of a solid K uL front. & %> As an indication of the benefit and the 4 L specific working of this spirit several inci s dents may be enlightening. 8 Recently two business men of this place were on a trade for Vidalia real estate. The S & trade envolved two parcels of land and the & ® parties in the trade were each to improve a w their new acquisitions if the deal was sue- | (u cessfully caried through, while if it did not m k go through, neither of the pieces would be % 4? changed. In the final analysis the trade ft £ reached a point when a lot of land adjacent d r to the property was needed by one of the a g parties to complete the trade and the owner u Jr of the outside property sacrificed his price (? 3 thirty-three percent and put it in so that the trade could be completed. This exhibition fr jL of the “Vidalia Spirit” will be the controll ft ing factor in over ten thousand dollars It 5 worth of immediate improvement in the wontown district. jr I Another incident of the same sort of spir it was shown in response to the Clean-Up a) and Plant A Tree campaign conducted here {£ which resulted in the planting of over two '£ thousand trees on the streets and many / thousands of flowers and shrubs on the if lawns about town. /) The tobacco industry is highly competi tive, and if run to capacity, the warehouses 3 show a good profit. Sensing this fact, a '4 I group of local capitalists recently decided jr to go into the matter of erecting a third to- 7) bacco warehouse. A conference developed 5 the fact that in all probability the two ware- $ houses could take care of the tobacco for • the next season and the third group prompt- \ ly agreed that they would build the new 4\ warehouse when the “Tdbacco Board of ft Trade,” which at this time consists of com- JM petition, decided that the additional space is needed. This will give the two existing w warehouses a chance to get their business yC on a firmer foundation before competition starts and will also give the competition a 2 chance to start making money at least three -w years before they could hope to do so, if & they entered now. * Many such instances are on record at Vi- % dalia, and many more will be put on record % as the years pass. New industries may £ ‘ come to Vidalia with better confidence. £ " knowing that they will not be held up by ex orbitant realty values, that they will not be !/J gouged wit hextra assessments and that al- £ ~ though competition may be keen, it will be 3!, fair and ethical. 4! I I j The General Is Coming!! The Community Mid i Week Service At City Hall Wednesday P. M. All the Churches will remember the Union Prayer and Training Ser-1 ! vice on Wednesday night at 8 o’clock ( in the City Hall. Leader: Rev. N. A. Thompson, of the Tabernacle • Baptist Church, his subject being— | “THE WORK THAT WINS LIVES TO CHRIST,” emphasizing the prin ciples involved in Individual Work I for and with Individuals, followed by any present layman or preacher, de i . | I siring to speak a few words germane I to the occasion. I Let us bear in mind day by day our “COMMUNITY PRAYER HOUR”,' J from 12 Mto 1 P. M. Let us bend j J our knees and our souls before God ! for real blessings for ourselves and ! others, for Christian Revival and for i Life Winning. I I The General Is Coming!! j MRS. E. HOLLAND WINNER OF - PRIZE IN THE ADVANCE’S PRIZE DISTRIBUTION CONTEST 808 LANE IS CAPTURED IN SWAINSBORO LANE ESCAPED CITY JAIL BY SAWING THROUGH BARS IS CAPTURED BY SWAINSBORO OFFICERS. Bob Lane, who escaped from the city jail here last week by sawing through three of the iron bars of the window as reported in last week’s is sue, was captured at Swainsboro and held for officers who needed hjm in their business. Lane, when captur ed here, was in good shape, being in possesion of quite a stock of mer chandise, which was identified and claimed by Mcßride Brothers of Als ton. When recaptured by Swains boro authorities, he was again in fi nancially good condition, havjng in his possession a stock of merchan dise which had disappeared from stores at Stillmore. He is also said to have had an automobile in his pos session. His description, broadcast ed by officer Frost of this place, was complete, and the authorities had no trouble in taking the right man. R. M. STANLEY BUYS McKEE PROPERTY ON CHURCH STREET LOWER FLOOR WILL CONTINUE TO B EOCCUPIED BY SERV-U MARKET; TOP FLOOR WILL BE -USED BY MR. STANLEY. It was announced this wek that the two-story brick building at the cor ner of an alley and Church street, oc cupied by the Serv-U Market has been sold to Mr. R. M. Stanley by Mr. Kee of Seale, Ala. This build ing was at one time the property of Mr. Stanley; he having sold it when he moved to Arizona some years ago. It has changed hands in the past few years oftener than any other piece of property in the down town section, having had ten owners in five years. The" building is of substantial con struction, having a front on Church street, with an alley on the side and beck, maing kis especially desirable. It is said that for the present the Serv-U Market will continue to occu py the first floor and that Mr. Stan ley will use the top floor as additional space for his furniture business, which has outgrown the space allotted to it in the hardware building on Rail road avenue. GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAMS PREPARING FOR TOURNAMENT FINAL PREPARATIONS ARE BE ING MADE FOR 12TH DISTRIST TORNEY TO BE AT COCHRAN THIS WEEK. The girls* basketball team of the local high school is making final prep aration for the 12th District tourna ment to be held at Cochran on Fri day and Saturday of this week and expect to be able to make a credita ble showing in this elimination tour- j nament where the fourteen best bas ketball teams in the District are en j tered. For the first game Vidalia 1 'drew Rochelle and should they de- * I feat this team will then play their | next game in the semifinals as they have a “bye” for the next day’s play. The girls all realize the importance of winning the first game and all are determined to do their best in order to do this. However, they all realize that they have a difficult task before j them. In preparation for the tournament tha local “lassies” have played two games this week and have given a good account of themselves in both. On Monday they were defeated on ] I the local court by Alamo 26-14 and | then on Tuesday night lost a close j ! game to Abbeville 17-16. However. 1 * in both games they were handieaped by the absence of “varsity” players. * JOSEPHINE TAYLOR RUNS CLOSE SECOND ______ , ADVANCE CAMPAIGN CLOSED SATURDAY WITH GREAT SUC CESS; PRESENTATION OF THE PRIZES AT GEORGIA TOBAC CO WAAREHOUSE. After six weks of hard work and anxiety on the part of the candidates and those interested in the individual candidates, culminated the closing of the Advance’s Prize Distribution Cam paign last Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Georgia Tobacco Ware house where the prizes were awarded to the successful candidates. The candidates were energetic and ambitious from beginning to end and showed a commendable spirit of good sportsmanship and fair play. Their efforts to increase the circulation of j the Advance was a great success and an accomplishment of which we are proud. The circulation was more than doubled in this drive. From the beginning the stamp of public apropval was placed on our campaign. Nothing but words of commendation have come to this of fice on the liberality, fairness and squareness of the whole proposition, and this was exemplified by the fact of the generous support extended to the candidates by the people who were aproched by the candidates in this campaign. Immediately folowing the arrival of the judges -who represented the different candidates, the counting of the votes began, after which the prizes were aw r arded by Mr. Geo. S. Rountree. t> _,* TOOMBS GRAND JURY IN FAVOR TAX EXEMPTION RECOMMENDATIONS ARE THAT CERTAIN TAVES BE GRANTED FREE ON INDUSTRIES DESIR ING TO LOCATE IN COUNTY. Among the important business transacted by the last Grand Jury was a recommendation that certain taxes be granted free to new indus tries desiring to establish business in Toombs County. It is not known just what processes of law will be necessary in order that this induce ment to new industries may be avail able, but the fact that a Grand Jury of the county makes such recommen dation is an indication of the temper ament of the citizenry with regard to new industries in this section. The that railroad facilities are of the best, climate is agreeable, labor reasonable and well banlanced power in unlimit ed quantities and that the people want neve business enterprise should go a long way towards inducing such concerns as can find raw materials handy to locate in this section. t( The General Is Coming!! CAR STOLEN FROM ‘ MR. JOHN RAGAN WEDNESDAY NIGHT I Mr. John T. Ragan reported on Thursday morning that some party |or parties had carried off his Chev- I rolet coupe, taking it from the drive way at his residence. The car was piactically new and a very important part of Mr. Ragan’s equipment as he used it every day in going from one of his contracts to another. The robbery was a very bold one as the Ragan home is close down town and the driveway runs just under the ieaves of the house. For the Alamo and Abbeville games two varsity players were absent. We hope that by Friday all of the regu lar players will be back in the lin > i up and we are sure that our girls will present a formidable team for tKe game with Rodhelle to be played in Cochran on Friday night at 7:30. 1 Let’s go Girls!! t NUMBER 13