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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV
I •xtuftr union revival vm. j
I .SftKa CAMPAIGN Warehouse
MUCH INTEREST IS
BEING MANIFESTED
IN UNION REVIVAL
CAMPAIGN IS PROVING TO BE
MOST ENTHUSIASTIC EVER
HELD HERE; SUBJECT FRIDAY
NIGHT WILL BE 12 CHAPTER
ROMANS.
By this time we are well into the
second week of the Revival Cam
paign. Great crowds are coming
and are being helped. Rev. Mr.
Sheriff is certainly doing some great
preaching. Great, because is it
scriptural, practical and simple. He
stands uncomprimisingly for the Bi
lle and has a wonderful insight into
it great truths. He lives close
enough to God for God to be able to
use him mightily to bring soul stir
ring mesages to the hearts and the
consciences of his hearers. The Holy
Spirit so accompanies the messages
that the people hear him gladly and
aspire to a bette rlife and a closer
w r alk with God.
The singer, Mr. Kent, is greatly
delighting the people with his sweet
mesages in song. He has a fine voice
and knows how to use it for the glory
of God.
Tuesdajy night was High School
night. These young people came out
in' full force and took active part in 1
the meeting, by singing some of
their songs, etc. Mr. Sheriff’s mes
sage was especially appropriate for
the occasion and the response to it
from the young people was very en
jouraging. It looks like the revival
is on, a total of sixty-six people came
forward to get right with God. It
was a beautiful sight.
This meeting certainly is a great
treat to the crowds who are attend
ing so well. It is the biggest thing
Vidalia has ever had. . It is worth
more to the future welfare of our
little city than any thing else we
could have started. Banks, railroads,
stores and all kinds of businesses are
absolutely unsafe unless the folks
who are interested in them, are also
giving due consideration to the things
that make for a' revival of the church
life of our town and community.
Much has been said of recent years
about the necessity of a great stand
ing army to be used if an invading
foe should attack ou country. To
some it is easy to see that our power
to resist such a foe is no greater than
the strength dft such a standing army.
On the basis of such reasoning as this
have we in Vidalia a good, strong
standing army of Christian soldiers —
men and women of God in the line
of battle showing that they are de
termined to protect the spiritual in
teress of the youth of our town?
This revival campaign is calling for
. such soldiers.
| Lets all come together with great
(enthusiasm and effort and make the
remaining days of the meeting, dajs
that will never be forgotten, because
of what they mean to the spiritual
uplift and life of our town and com
munity. Let no ne delay or be in
different. The cost will be too great.
To Preach To Mea Only
Sunday Afternoon
Sunday afternoon at three o’clock
Rev. Sheriff will preach to men only.
There wil be special music at this
hour.
The evangelist announces that on
next Sunday morning he will preach
at Mt. Vernon at the Brewton-Parker
Institute, it being understood that
all churches of Vidalia will have
their regular morning services.
New Addition To
Rountree Park Zoo
l The Rountree Park zoo was aug
mented this week by the arrival of
JL young deer, which will form a
BL, ry valuable addition to the mem
os the Rountree collection of
REV. WAINWRIGHT
DIES IN MACON
1 WAS PRESIDING ELDER OF THE
McRAE DISTRICT;. WILL BE
BURIED FRIDAY AT FOLKS
TON.
Macon, Ga., April 13.—Rev. E. L.
Wainwright, presiding elder of the
Mcßae District of the Methodist
Epicopal Church, South, died at a
private hospital here tonight.
Rev. Mr. Wainwright was 41 years
of age. He had been a pastor in
the South Georgia conference six
teen years. He is survived by his
wife and four children. The body
will be taken to Folkston, Ga., early
tomorrow morning, where the funeral
will be held Friday morning at 11
o’clock.
Rev. Mr. Wainwright underwent
and operation for rnastoditis several
days ago and had been in a critical
condition. Tuesday night he show
ed slight improvement for the first
time, but the improvement was only j
temporary and he gradually sank j
: during today.
He was married in February, 1913, ■
jto Miss Lucile McKibben of Locust
Grove. She has two brothers in the
conference .these being Charles R.
McKibben of Smithville, and J. W T . O.
McKibben of Haygood Memorial I
Church, Atlanta.
Rev. Mr. Wainwright was born in
Folkston and t has held pastorates at
Wrightsville, Bartow, Davisboro,
Dublin and other places in Southern 1
Georgia. * ,JL it *i Jr
Regretted ill Vidalia
Vidalia learned with profound re-
gret Wednesday night of the death :
in MahOft of the Rev. Wainwright. !
He had been in ill health for several j
months, and a short time ago was j
forced to undergo an operation in |
Maco’ “or rnastoditis. His recovery |
lu.u practically dispaired of for
1 some time.
RECENT SHOWERS
HELP TOBACCO
TRANSPLANTING
REPORTS ARE THAT TOBACCO
PLANTS ARE DOING NICELY
IN THIS SECTION.
With the recent showers that came
to Toombs County and this section
folowed by cool waether, hundreds
of thousands of tobacco plants have \
beer, and are now being transplanted |
by growers of this county and sec- j
ticn. Reports from all sections are |
that the plant sare doing nicely.
Services at
VIDALIA
Tobacco Warehouse
Sunday Afternoon,
April 17th, j
For
MEN ONLY
The Hour is
3 O'CLOCK
ar nals. The zoo at this popular
pa-k attracts considerable attention
of all visitors to the place.
DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE BEST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
Max* JartH |
ABOUT THE PROSPEROUS CITY OF I
Ithalta ■ 1
This column was started and has been con- $
ducted for several months with a view of “Sell- &
ing Vidalia to Homefolks.” Since its incipien &
cy announcements have been herein of real es- \
tate transfers and sales amounting to over a hun- (r
dred thousand dolars in the downtown section T)
of the city. It has also announced develop- |
ments proposed and undertaken amounting to |
over a quarter of a million dollars. In some of j f
the announcements the column “scooped” the
newspaper by making the very first public an- k
nouncement of these developments. All of these j)
deals were among homefolks and the develop- ja
'ments were and will be taken by Vidalians. This &
week it is a pleasure to announce a development <L
in which twenty-five thousand dollars will be |
spent, which will be undertaken by out-of-town fl
people, who will, starting in the immediate fu- (2
ture, build another tobacco warehouse in Vida- §
lia, the land having already been acquired and g
contracts awarded for the erection of the wai'e-
Bp house. The building will be erected on East
4 First street and will cover a large part of the
€ famous “Black Bottom” section, which fact 0
h should be doubly interesting as the city will get
W the benefit of the building development and it jV
(6 will cover a place that while admirably suitable vj
js’ for the warehouse, is not suitable for many other K
! & puposes, being too low for residence property f)
!g, and too far from the business section to be used S.
1 -j) for business houses. • - fij
Messrs, Bernard and Vann, a partnership of if
East Tennesseeans, will be the owners and op- g
! J erators of the Tobacco Sales House, they having
\r, experience in the business as operators in Tenn
jy. essee, Virginia and Georgia. $
jf This firm is especially fitted to operate a ware m
6 house in Georgia, having for several years con- g>
« ducted a successful business in Douglas. JH
The warehouse will be erected in units, the V
(3 first covering thirty thousand of floor space. It »\)
U will be on a wooden frame, and iron-clad, with £
jw standard lighting and will be conveniently ar-
V ranged so that the “drive-in” will be on First ’ a
ft street and the “drive-out” on Railroad avenue,
83 with plenty of parking space around the house /l
$ for its patrons. * z)
| The building contract has ben awarded to J. S
J F. Darby, local contractor and builder, and the $
5 work will be pushed along as quickly as ma
terials can be assembled.
W The new warehouse will make the third of its 1
| g kind in Vidalia and with the other houses will /V
:jg afford the tobacco sellers a total floor space of ,v\
I(I one hundred and thirty thousand feet of floor $
V space. The new warehouse will be served by. v>
J) Seaboard sidings, while the other warehouses §
/ are on the G. &F. tracks. %
7J The tobacco crop is this section is the most hJ
% promising ever in prospect at this season of the 2
K vear. Acreage in Toombs county is double the
g biggest acreage ever planted, there being over if
ft 3,000 acres. The set looks healthy, having had |
$1 good rains at the proper season. Barns are be- v\
| ing constructed between times, to take care of g
£ curing and the growers have experience in the \
$ past lew years which should have a tendancy to *7
1J) to make the curings turn out top grades. $
i g Two sets of buyers have been assigned to the }
j)j local market and it now seems as if all hands p
Q employed in the tobacco industry would have a $
y big season when it opens in late July.
HIGGSTON MAN IS
ATTACKED BY A
WOULD-BE ROBBER
WOUNDED MAN IS BROUGHT TO
THE VIDALIA HOSPITAL FOR
TREATMENT.
Mr. C. B. Quinn, a merchant of
VIDALIA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1927.
Higgston was attacked by a negro
in his store at Higgston on Monday
evening last, receiving a very pain
! ful wound in the scalp,
j According to Mr. Quin, the negro
' came his store and asked for a
1 can of soup. When he turned to the
I shelf to get the can, his assailant hit
him with a black gum stick, but the
NINETEEN ARE TO
GRADUATE FROM
VIDALIA SCHOOL
PRESENT PLANS ARE THAT
SENATOR WALTER F. GEORGE
WILL DELIVER LITERARY AD
DRESS.
Nineteen pupils will graduate from
the Vidalia High School this year, the
graduating exercises to take place ;
on May 23.
The personel o fthe class is given |
a3 follows: George Blount, Clinton
Harris, Paul Thompson, Walter Jen
kins, Hampton Reeves, George Dean,
Ruby Schwalls, Denham Lee, Mar
garet Taylor, Ethel Walker, Marie
Hilton, Maurine Darby, Catherine
Phillips, Juanita Thompson, Lucy
Poe, Annie Saffold, Marian Godwin, j
Kathryn Joiner and Katherine Jones.
According to the present program,
Senator Walter F. George will deliv
er the Literary Address and Dr. J. B.
Fincklen, of Decatur, Ga., will de
liver the Baccalaureate Sermon.
Other exercises have not been ar
! ranged, but each of the special de
-1 partments will have important parts I
i these will be asigned some time dur
} ing the graduating week exercises.
• The class of ’l9 is a rather large
class, taken by averages, but is not
the largest on record, twenty-three
having graduated one year from this
institution. The larger portion of
the class will go to college. It is
also reported that more graduates of
the Vidalia Public Schools are in col
lege than from any other institution
in this section, over a hundred and
twenty-five pupils from the local
school being in college at this time.
The Vidalia School Board are at
this time completing plans with a
view to having a new school building
for the next term of school which
' ! will take care of the pupils that will
' be enrolled, the present buildings, ac
cording to State school supervisors,
1 being deplorably crowded.
The faculty consists of Prof. W. L.
Downs, Superintendent and twenty
| j three teachers.
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The Alcorn Service
Station Purchased
By Chess Abernathy
l
j
The gasoline station at the corner
of Thompson street and Railroad Ave
nue, formerly conducted by Mr. C.
V. Alcorn, has been purchased by Mr.
I Chess Abernathy, who has taken
charge of theb usiness this week.
Mr. G- E. Anderson is in charge of
1 the business and putting out service.
■■■■■■■■i“■™“**■■■“■"" mmmm “"*“"""*** -
i blow was slightly miscalculated and
a shelf was struck at the same time,
| taking some of the force of the blow
and probably saving the life of Mr.
Quinn. He was able to sound an
i alarm and his assailant ran. Neigh
bors brought the wounded man to
the Vidalia hospital where his wound
was dressed and later in the week he
i was removed to his home.
I ■ ■ ■—
LOCAL MARINE
■ HAS COMPLETED
HIS TRAINING
I
t • ;
G. B. MARTINDALE, FORMERLY
OF THIS CITY, FINISHES HIS
! TRAING AT PARRIS ISLAND.
Parris Island, S. C., April 14. —As- |
ter completing his preliminary train- 1
ing as a U. S. Marine at the training ,
station here, G. B. Martindale, of
| Vidalia, Ga., has been assigned to
duty at Norfolk, Va. He may re
main there for a very short period
due to the Vapid movement of ma
■ rine forces at this time.
i
UNITED 5 & IOC
STORES TO OPEN
FRIDAY, APRIL 22
FORMAL OPENING WILL BE AT
9A. M. IN ATTRACTIVE NEW
BUILDING.
—- ■ %
Announcement will be found else
where in this issue of the Advance of
the forma lopening of the United 5
i and 10c Stores on next Friday morn
j ing, April 22, at 9 A. M.
Mr. Fred Ehrenriech, general man
ager of the chain of stores, was in
the city Thursday morning and an
nounced in an interview that the
local store would handle anything
that could be found in any store of
this nature in the large cities and
that at all times a large stock of
merchandise would be carried here,
1 Due to the fact that they are operat
ing a chain of stores, they are in po
sition to offer attractive prices to the
public.
Mr. E. L. Sumner, who is the man
ager of the local store, has arrived
and is busy preparing for the open
ing.
Mr. Sumner and Mr. Ehrenriech
, extend to you a cordial invitation to
J this opening next Friday, the twen
| ty-second.
HODGES RETURNS
FROM GOODYEAR
MEET IN AUGUSTA
a
OBJECT OF MEETING WAS TO
ACQUAINT DEALERS WITH
THE DETAIL ADVANTAGES OF
GOODYEAR PRODUCTS.
Mr. E. C. Hodges of the McNatt
Motor Company of this dit-r ’ st
returned from Augusta where ne at
tended a Goodyear dealers’ meeting
which was held in the Richmond ho
tel on Friday afternoon, April 8.
The object of the meeting was to
acquaint Goodyear dealers in thia
section with the details o fthe ad
vantages of the new Goodyear All-
Weather Balloon tire, which has al
ready been generally accepted by the
tire-buying public, acording to Mr.
Hodges.
An attractive window display ex
hibiting the recently announced
Goodyear All-Weather Balloon tire
has been placed in the store of Mc-
Natt Motor Co.
“We believe that this new balloon:
tire is one of the most remarkable
developments in the history of tire
manufacturing,” Mr. Hodges
ed.
Ever since balloon tires were in
troduced, the Goodyear company has
been experimenting with tire treads.
This work covered a period of more
tha ntwo years and during that time
more than 80 different treads were
developed and put into test over the
harshest kinds of road conditions.
When the new tire was turned over
to the Goodyear tire-testing fleet,
which operated a total of 5,400,000
tire-miles in 1926, Goodyear engin
eers learned the merits of the All-
Weather Balloon tire.
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For several weeks he has been un
dergoing instruction in the drills, cus
' toms and duties of marines at the
; South Carolina camp, and has now
j attained the status of a full-fledged
| marine. He is now available for
j duty at any post at home or abroad,
where marines are stationed.
! Martindale lived at the home of
'his mother, Mrs. Drue B. Martindale,
!in Vidalia, before he joined the Ma
rine Corps at Atlanta, last January.
He went direct from that city to
Parris Island, thence to Norfolk, and
wil probably travel many more hun
dreds of miles before his enlistment
is completed.
HUMBER 18