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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV
“BETTER HOMES”
MOVEMENT COM.
PUN FOR YEAR
MUCH GOOD ACCOMPLISHED IN
PAST TWO. YEARS; AIM OF
COMMITTEE IS MUCH HIGHER
FOR THINGS THAT MIGHT BE
DONE THIS YEAR.
Hand in hand with the “City
Beautiful” ideas and works comes
the “Better Homes Movement” for
1927. For the past two years, the
feeble, but earnest efforts of the
Better Homes Committee have culmi
nated in placing Vidalia in the “Hon
orable Mention List.” From Geor
gia only two other places, Columbus
and Americus, received honorable i
mention. The committee is not con
tent to sit back 'upon these achieve
ments, but wishes to press forward,
and with the assurance tha treal, last
ing good has been accomplished.
The aim of the Better Homes
movement is much broader than just
the construction of sound, comforta
ble, ecnomical, and efficiently op- ;
erated homes. One part of its gen- 1
eral purpose may be described as the 1
encouragement of thrift and civic i
effectiveness in the community. Com-
munity interest are as follows: Eco- j
nomic Interests — those which have to
do with making a living; Physical ;
Interests—those which have to do j
with private and public health; In
tellectualual Interests —those which
concern mental growth and develop- :
ment; Social Interests —those which
have to do with the things we do in
our leisure time, and which affect
the community as a whole; Religious
Interests——those which have to do ,
with the moral and spiritual growth
of our town; Political Interests —
those having to do with the laws and
government by which the individual
and society regulate and control
their common and other interests; j
Asthetic Interests —concern our love
for the refining and beautiful things
of life. In this last interest especial- 1
ly, does the “City Beautiful” idea 1
reign. If the “City Beautiful” com
mittee co-operative with the “Better
Homes” committee valiantly fight
for the improvement of these above
community interests, what a trans- ,
formation may take place in our
town! '
Let us not only beautify civically,
but morally, intellectually and re
ligiously.
FRIGID AIRF SND !
DELCO SALESMEN
OFF FOR TOLEDO
ENTIRE LOCAL FORCE WILL
ATTEND CONVENTION THIS
YEAR.
Mr. A- C. Jenkins, manager of the
Figidaire and Delco-Light place here !
will leave this week for the facory
and will be acompanied by every 1
salesman employed by his agency,
all of them having earned a triß to
Toledo by the amount of their sales
during the past year. These trips
are an annual affair and in order to
win them the salesman must sell a
given amount of Delco products. It
is therefore a significient fact that
all of the local agency salesmen have
one of these trips.
*McNATT MOTOR CO.
NOW HAS AN UP-TO
DATE SERVICE DEPT.
IN ADDITION TO ENLARGING
QUARTERS NEW EQUIPMENT
HAS BEEN INSTALLED.
The McNatt Motor Company of
this city, authorized Ford dealers for
this cpmmunity have recently cim
pleted the installation of additional
'equipment in their service depart-
ment that brings their shop up to ,
the standard of any city shop. With ,
the improvements and additional
space, this organization is enabled to
give service in much shorter time.
An important feature added to the 1
service department of this concern is
the painting service; facilities having
r l been installed to give the very best .
paint job obtainable anywhere. ■
Cars will be painted any color that ’
you wish, and painted while you wait
-flge&most.
REVIVAL CAMPAIGN
STARTS HERE WITH
LARGE ATTENDANCE
BEGINNING ON SUNDAY AFTER
NOON, MEETINGS HAVE BEEN
WELL ATTENDED; SOME VERY
INSPIRING MESSAGES BEING
BROUGHT BY EVANGELIST.
I,
i On Sunday aft
ernoon last the Un
’ion Revival Cam
been planned and
advertised for sev
\ ora * weeks by the
•^' n ' s * ers ' Associa
tion of Vidalia
™ the Presbyterian,
Mr. L. B. Kent Baptist, and Meth-
Choir Leader odist churches of
j this city started as exemplified by the
large attendance, a great revival for
this section, the number present were
not counted, but was closely estimat
ied at one thousand, the service fol
; lowing Sunday night was attended
I by a much greater number, being es-
I timated at about fifteen hundred,
j Evangelist S. R. Sheriff, of the
I Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, who
: is doing the preaching, is as has been
said, “a man of clear and illuminat
j ing Christian faith,” and as another
| has said, is “a prince among men”,
Kas brought to the large audiences
: some inspiring and indeed helpful
mesages from the beginning. The
large choir has added much to this
great meeting, the singing being a
splendid feature and Mr. Lynn B.
i Kent, who is also from the same in
' stitution, being in charge of the mus
ic, is an able master and his service
is greatly appreciated and enjoyed.
1 On Fridya night of this week,
Evangelist Sheriff has announced that
his subject will be “Mothers and
Home” that night will be known as
“Mothers’ Night.”
co‘A sWthe whe in the course ofh
! Monday night of next week will be
“Baptist Night,” however, this is not
for Baptists only but for everybody.
Tuesday night will be “High School
Night” and the Glee Club of th local
High School will render selections at
this service.
j These services are being held at
eleven in the morning and at eight
at night, marked interest is manifest
at each service, and each congrega
tion is larger than the preceding one.
GEORGIA FOR
GEORGEPLAN
| INTHEMAKING
MOVEMENT IN STATE TO GIVE
HIM AN INSTRUCTED DELEGA
TION.
Atlanta, April 4.—Georgia-for
( George.
i That seems to be the political cards
in the state for the next Democratic
National Convention. There is a
very pronounced movement under
way to send to the convention a
delegation from Georgia instructed
to vote for George all the time as
the Democrat Presidental nominee.
Much quiet work has been done
, along this line b ythe friends of the
senator.
A National Figure
It is claimed that George during
the time he has been in th esenate
has developed into a national figure
j and that if he were a Democrat from
‘the North or the Wst he would be a
serious contender for the Presidental
nomination. His friends believe
that Georgia should organize as thor
oughly in his interests in 1928 as
Alabama organized in behalf of Un
derwood four years ago. They be
lieve that George would stand a bet
ter chance that did Underwood for
either a Presidental or Vive Presi
dential nomination. George has been
.singled out by the newspaper corres-
I pondents and others in Washington j
i as an outstanding Democratic figure, !
aay those who are behind the move- j
irrent to get him on the national j
I ticket.
L Reed’* Friend* Busy
The Georgia friends of Senator i
Reed of Missouri are showing some '
activity in his behalf in Georgia.
• The Georgia-for George people de
’ clare that neither the Smith nor the >
■ McAdoo elements can be brought ih
*to a harmonious element to back
DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B EST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
IHorf 3 arts J
ABOUT THE PROSPEROUS CITY OF
Uthalta I
■■■'-O' —' ■ ft
17IDALIA is the metropolis of an agricultural ft
▼ section. No other class of business rates jS
close to agriculture in importance; in fact, prac- % \
tically all other businesses are operated as aux- 'ft (
iliaries to the agricultural industry and with ft
these facts in view, it may b einteresting to note |
the statistics available on this industry in J
Toombs County. f *
The county contains just over a quarter of a \j
million acres of land and about a hundred and ft
fifty thousand acres of the entire land area is in ft
farms, the balance being in wild land, waste $
land, etc., of which a large part is capable of be- w
ing developed as and when needed. Os the one tk
hundred and fifty thousand acres in farms, &,
about one-half the acreage is used strictly for 5
farming purposes, the other half being used as ([
pasturage, wood land, etc., which leaves about &■-
seventy-five thousand acres which can be class- % ;
ed as improved land in farms, ahd this land is L j
[divided into about two thousand farms, the two J,.
thousand figure being in round numbers, very
few of which are operated by managers, owners IE
operating about one-third and tenants the other ft
two-thirds. |
It will be interesting to know that cotton is jt
not the major crop planted on the most of the T)
Toombs County acregage; there being about * j
25,000 acres, while corn and other grains are g
planted on twice this number of acres. Tobac- ft
co takes up about three thousand acres this M
'•year; sugar cane over a thousand acres; pota- &
j) toes, both white and yellow, about two thousand
r acres and other crop of all sorts have an aggre- (t
f gate acreage which assumes importance. De.w- i)
(V berries, rice, strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes, |
beans and practically every class of producce ft
ft being raised in quantities sufficient to supply ft
$ the demand in season. It is also of interest to X
($ note that many thousand acres of the farming ft
U land is now planted in fruit and nut trees, there y
f) being over a thousand acres each set to apple, h
P pear, and pecan trees. The pecan trees seem to M
I fj be tffe most popular of this class, there being ft
g about two thousand acres in this tree. ft
(f Cotton yield amounts to about a half-bale per , j
| acre, which at 20 cents per pound would amount L
Q to a million and a quarter dollars per year. Corn ft
ft and other grains are raised in the amount of
OSp about one million bushels, which at 75*bents per
bushel yields an income of $75,000. The three V
1 % thousand acres of tobacco is said to be valued \
at a half million dollars and the potato crop, ft
{( raised on the two thousand acres, setting the
1/ yield at 100 bushels per acre and the price at JL
5 SI.OO per bushel, will amount to another quarter n
j/, of a million dollars. %
£ The most promising crop of all in Toombs %
j; County in the pecan, which is said to consist at w
ft this time of about 25,000 trees. The trees are in U
J a suitable climate and are said to bear in mar- j k
ft ketable quantities at the age of five years. Prob /ft
ably ten thousand of the trees are now bearing, ft
% while the rest will come in from year t year. §
ft Over a SI,OOO worth of nursery stock in Toombs %
D . County will be ready for the market in the
•v course of the next three years. All of which ft
gives an idea of the growing importance of the
;.5 pecan industry in this section. ft
ft As stated in the beginning of this article, al- ft
o most every business in the county is operated as ft
‘h an auxiliary to the farming industry. The coun- jl
a ty employs an experienced demonstration agent ft
g who gives his time to the crops, while growing, (f 1
ft and to marketing facilities when they are gath- ft
| ered. Resources of the Toombs Count ybanks /)
are for the larger part used by the farming in- $
jjj dustry and the merchants are stocked with such
■ as are in demand by those engaged in the farm
ing industry. y
An analysis of thesp figures should prove in- £ J
2) teresting and profitable to business men gener- ft
ally, a reasonable conclusion being that the $
jj greater part of the values in the county are pro- ft
V duced by farmers and in order to participate in ft 1
Jn the distribution it is necessary to do business ;
!fa with the folks who produce the values ft
1 si j
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either of these candidates and that
eo send an instructed George dele
gation would not only cement the
! differences of the party but would
,be the proper recognition of the
ability of a native Georgian by the i
l
Democrats of Georgia.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1927.
Mm rart in Procession
Ton know how the Rotarlans do at
their dinners, when the; stand op and
tell In what business they are en
gaged. George Marble tells of an un
dertaker, when called on at one of
these meetings who rose and said, “1
follow the medical profession.”—Cap
j per's Weekly.
“DEMONSTRATION
WEEK” TO BE HELD
M’NATT MOTOR CO.
WEEK BEGINNING APRIL 9 AND
RUNNINNG THROUGH THE 16 !
WILL BE DESIGNATED AS
“DEMONSTRATION WEEK” BY
LOCAL FORD AGENCY.
Designation, of the period from
April 9 to April 16 as “Demonstra
| tion Week”, during which time the
! general public will be invited to ride
in and drive new Fords of every type
has been announced by I. B. Groves, 1
Manager of the Atlanta Branch of
the Ford Motor Company, in a com- 1
munication to all dealers in the terri
tory served by the Atlanta Branch.
In his letter to McNatt Motor Com
i pany, Ford Dealer in this city, Mr.
! Groves stated in part, “We want the
I public to know about Today’s Ford
] Car, to know the merits of the best
car the Ford Motor Company has ever '
built.”
Dealers in all sections of the At
lanta Branch territory are preparing (
, to have everything in readiness for
! the big event and expect it to be one
jof the most successful undertakings
; in the long history of the Ford enter
prise.
The local dealer has a number of
demonstrators of every type on hand
at the present time, but he is plan
ning to make additions to his stock
and wants every citizen in this com
munity to take advantage of the op
portunity to ride in and drive one
of the new Ford cars.
The McNatt Motor Company an
nounces that the firm will keep “Op- '
en House” throughout the week and I
invites the public to make the build-'
ing headquarters for the purpose of
seeing at first hand the company’s
splendid factilities for furnishing
complete service to Ford owners in
this section.
“There are not any strings to this
invitation to drive a new Ford car,”
asserted Mr. McNatt, manager of the
local dealership. “A person may con
sider that he knows the Ford car.
He may have been a Ford owner for
years and thinks he is familiar with
the splendid satisfaction which the
Ford gives, and yet, unless he has
made it a point to examine THE
FORD CAR AS IT IS BUILT TO
DAY, to drive it and note its im
proved engine performance, relax in
it over rough roads and experience
the increased comfort which it as- .
fords, and to learn of the many re- 1
cent improvements, he does not know '
the Ford car.
Many of ' the new Ford features
are obvious, balloon tire equipment, 1
wire wheels, a choice of colors in
py.-oxylin finish, improved uphols
tery, etc., but owners of Ford cars
are amazed at the increased power
resulting from the new Vaporizer,
the smoother engine operation, the
increased gasoline mileage, the im
proved riding qualities and at the
way this car handles and performs in
traffic and on the open road.
The McNatt Motor Company will
be glad t'o furnish additional inform
ation covering the “Demonstration
Week” for Today’s Ford Cars.
Railroad Crossings
Os Three Streets Are
Now Being Paved
The paving work, which has been
completed so far as the city is con- j
1 cerned, is getting its final touch this ,
week, the Seaboard railroad having (
a crew at work putting in the three
crossings at Leader, Church and Pea
cock streets. This work is to be (
done with gravel, which binds the j
read nearly as well as would con- '
|
Crete, but which may be taken up
and replaced when it is necessary to j
1 put in new cross ties. The finishing
of the thre crossings will complete
the paving project undertaken by the
city in the down-town district.
Many Cabinets Are
Sold By Gunter In
Big Sale Saturday
The sale conducted on last Satur
day by the Gunter Furniture Com
pany, at which time they had a car
load of kitchen cabinets of a popular <
! make to offer on that day, was a i
success, according to manager Gun- s
| ter of this firm. The cabinete, which <
OHOOPEE GIVES
UP BODY ON LAST
SATURDAY MORN
MISS CORNELIA HOLTON WHO
WAS DROWNED IN OHOOPEE
RIVER IS FOUND WEEK LATER
Miss Cornelia Holton, age 17, pop
i ular young woman of near Johnson
corner community, who was drown
ed about nine o’clock Sunday morn
ing, March 27, at Nail’s Dam on the
I Ohoopee river, was recovered from
I the water early Saturday morning,
. almost a week later.
I Miss Holton and Mr. Bernice New,
her cousin, were boating on the river
above the under-surface dam, using
l only a piece of board, its is said, for
an oar. They drifted too near the
dam and the boat was caught in the
swift current, carried over the dam
and up under the water-fall. It
! soon emerged, but one side of the
j boat was tom away, making it use
less only as a float. Miss Holton
| could not swim, but managed to
I keep up until the two drifted with
the boat about 200 feet down the
river. She went under the water
several times in the very swift cur
rent, and finally disappearing, she
said goodbye to her brother and sis
ter on the shore and, after request
ing that she be buried at Holton ceme
tery in Truetlen county, went under
for the last fame.
On Thursday of the week that Miss
was drowned the deep sea divers
from the Kehoe Iron Works of Sa
i vannah who were brought here to
locate the body, gave up the task, but
{ friends and sympathizers from miles
around remained faithfully oil the
job night and day until the body had
been recovered.
Miss Holton was the daughter of
A. E. Holton, residing on the Billie
Bell place.
It is said that this is the eighth
person to have drowned in the swift
reach of the river extending from
above the mill site to half a mile be
low.
0. J. FOUNTAIN IS
WINNER IN FORD
MILEAGE CONTEST
SEVEN CARS THAT ENTERED
THE CONTEST MAKE AVER
AGE r> OVER FORTY THREE
| MILLa oN ONE GALLON GAS.
1 For three weeks the Ford dealers
of Vidalia, Mount Vernon, Uvalda
and Lyons have asked their custom
ers to test out their Ford cars -and
enter a contest for a number of
valuable prizes, the first being SIOO.-
00 in silver, and on Saturday night,
April 2nd, the preliminary test closed
and each Ford dealer selected their
two highest men who ran the contest
off on Tuesday April sth, the cash
prize being won by Mr. O. J. Foun
tain of Vidalia. Mr. Fountain ran
his Ford 50.1 miles on one gallon of
crown gasoline, this run was made in
the presence of quite a large number
of people besides the judges in the
contest.
Mr. Fountain made a good run,
but had, some close competityirs, as
the average mileage made by tha|
seven compettitors in the contest?
test was more than 43 miles per gal
lon, each man was given a measur
-1 ed gallon of gas by the judges and
'a final check up shows that the sev
en gallons of gasoline issued to the
competitors ran a distance of 306.
1 miles. I- . .' ■- ’
j It is very interesting indeed to see
I just one gallon of gasoline put into
1 each car and see the wonderfully long
, distance that they made, one car in
! this bunch ran over five hous on one
gallon of gasoline, --*■*’ ? 7 ’
The winner of this cash prize was
a proud man, but he says he would
rather have the carburator on his
car than ta have the SIOO.OO if ho
could not deuplicate it, it is the new
improved vaporizer which now comes
on all Ford cars as standard equip
ment. •
Reason's Great Help
We ought to call In reason, like s
good physician, ns s help In
fnne
occupied most of the down stairs
floor space at the beginning of the
sale were purchased by the citizens
of this section.
NUMBER 17