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All The New* Os Toombi and Surrounding Counties
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
Published Every Thursday
Vidalia. Georgia
R. E. LEDFORD. Editor & Publisher
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under the Act of Congress.
Cold, hard facts are usually just that —
except on many cold, hard tombstones.
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Ignorance of the law excusss no one —but
knowledge of the law confuses every one.
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The small boy makes a home run when he
hears his mother calling him.
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, A resolute man is often found to be re
markably shy on resolutions
It's easy to secure the world’s good opin
ion if you have the price.
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Though the world man owe every man a
living, only the persistant collector gets it.
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A few good misses in the chorus are apt
to aid the opera in making a hit.
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The dinner gong and the dinner ring are
not always synonymous.
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The average man isn’t half so anxious to
bet on a sure thing as those behind the game
are to have him do it. _
In 50 years the American telephone indus
try has grown from the seemingly wild
dream of a genius to perhaps the greatest
Commercial enterprise in the world. It has
been developed out of nothing by wresting
from nature’s boundless store her hidden
secrets and applying them to the problems
of speceh transmission. Other secrets will
be released only by continual research and
experimentation.
Through the constant labor of that farsee
ing group of scientists and technicians main
tained by the Bell System Department of
Development and Research, the telephone
using public in America will continue to
benefit and maintain its well established
leadership in the field of communication
and universal use of the telephone. The lat
test evidence of this is the transatlantic ra
dioph< ne service made available to the
whole United States.
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Stretching the truth is one way of making
things go as far as they can—but look out
for the snap-back.
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We never looked at it this way before, but
it it a that there are an awful lot of “s”
curves in Mississippi.
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New . ork police captured a burglar who
had tools of his trade hid in his wooden leg.
. that reads lige a LEGend, eh?
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Federal prohibition forces are being mob
ilized on the Canadian border to attend the
150,000 thirty Yanks, who, it is estimated,
will tour into Ontario this summer. The
battle ei v no doubt will be “The ‘hies’ are
coming.”
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If a r m wants to get acquainted with
human nature let him edit a newspaper for
a she t time. He knows nothing of the ups
and downs of life until he has served in this
capacity. He may have preached, conduct
ed a bonk, sold goods, traded horses, prac
ticed law, sawed wood or operated a pop
corn and peanut stand, but he needs a few
months’ experience as an editor-in-chief of
a country newspaper to complete his knowl
edge of the eccentricities of human nature’,,
—Metter Advertiser.
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DON’T BITE AT THIS ONE.
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We are in receipt of a letter from a sub
scriber net far from this city who says: “I
have received four ties in the mail I did not
order. Ido not want them. Can these
people force me to pay for them or to pay
postage for their return?” When anyone
sending you merchandise you did not order
and do not want you have no legal or moral
•esponsibility whatever. But probably the
easiest way to get rid of it is to return it to
the postman or carrier. If you receive any
letters of a threatening nature, don’t answer
them, but turn hem over to the postmaster.
The mails are being used these days by a
good many smooth individuals and they re
sort to many subterfuges to sell their stuff.
Buy at home and you will be nd of these
pharks. —Dublin Press. ■ -
FARMING AND FENCES
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Glynn County staged an election about a
year ago on the question of fences and
range cattle, and the range cattle won out.
There are many people, viewing the situa
tion from a standpoint of neutrality, and
getting their ideas from the experiences in
other places, who think the voters made a |
mistake
In last week’s Pilot, Mr. Geo. D. Lowe
discussed the matter in a most able manner.
What he has to say is of considerable im-;
portance because of the fact that he has
made a life long study of just the conditions
m' 1 * with in questions of this kind.
The Pilot wonders if, in the light of later
developments, the people of the country
would not reverse their former pronounce
ment on this very important question if it
, should be brought up again and put to the
people for an expression of their present at
titude.
There are rather convincing arguments
on both sides of this very important subject,
but it seems that the losing side in the last
election have the preponderance of argu
ment on their side.—Brunswick Pilot.
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HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD
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“One of Metter’s young ‘capitalists’ who
‘owns’ a bank, came into this office on last
Friday morning while the paper w r as being
prepared for mailing, hurriedly scanned the
paper and remarked to the editor, ‘There’s
nothing in the paper this week.’ Now, we
agree with this young ‘philanthropist’ that
‘there is’nt much to the paper’ and there
never will be until the banks and business
houses of the city DO something towards
advertising their town and county and quit
letting the paper DO IT ALL. If this ‘over
night capitalist’ would use some advertising
for ‘his’ bank and get the others to advertise
maybe there would be ‘something to the
paper’ every week.”—Metter Advertiser.
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It is estimated that mail order houses of
the country distribute more dollars worth
of catalogs each week to the patrons of the
Pelham postoffice than the combined ad
vertising of all the business houses of the
city,” says the Pelham Journal. That, as;
our contemporary remarks, is one reason
why many people are sending local money
to foreign cities, never to be put into circu
lation here again. It is gone forever.
What is true of Pelham is true of Metter
and practically every other of the smaller
towns.—Metter Advertiser.
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READERS MAKE THE PAPER
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If none exists, an axiom should be coined
to the effect that a newspaper is as digni
fied, as intelligent, and as reliable as its
readers. This truth was given graceful ex
pression by Mr. Adolph S. Ochs, publisher
of the New York Times, in his acceptance
of the gold medal bestowed upon him, quite
fittingly, by the National Institute of Social
Science, because of the establishment and |
maintenance of the high standards of jour- j
nalism that control his publication. “And
when all is said,” Mr. Ochs concluded a
singularly stimulating address, “to whom is
the most credit due for the beneficent influ
ence and public service that a decent, digni
fied, alert, and enterprising newspaper can
render? In the final analysis, it is to you.
and others like you, who appreciate and
support real newspapers, that the credit is
due. You honor yourselves in this express
ion of honest journalism. You have made
the New Times possible. It is your com
bined strength—several hundred thousand
of you—wishing, seeking, finding, appre
ciating, encouraging the effort, and reward
ing it, even though the reward be only the
contribution of a few' pennies a day—doubt
less the smallest money contribution you
give regularly to anything. On these pen
nies the very foundation of the structure
rests.”
The credit which Mr. Ochs bestows upon
readers of the New York Times may with
propriety be similarly dispensed by every
newspaper in the country. The newspa
per, in the strictest nossible sense, belongs
to its community. Whatever it may accom
plish constructively it owes to its readers,
both because they contribute to its support,
and because, in reading and heeding, they
The credit which Mr. Ochs bestows upon
readers of the New York imes may with
propriety be similarly dispensed by every
newspaper in the country. The newspaper
in the strictest possible sense, belongs to its
community. Whatever it may accomplish
constructively it owes to its readers, both
because they contribute to its support, and
because, in reading and heeding, they be
come the agencies whereby its efforts in be
half of public welfare are rendered fruitf
ul.—Atlanta Journal. . _ . .
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
SALE OF LAND UNDER POWER |
GEORGIA, Toombs County.
Wheras, on the 2th day of Novem
ber, 1924, Mrs. Missouri M. Mulling
executed and delivered to the Geor
gia Loan and Trust company, her j
deed, under Section “3306 of the
1910” Code of Georgia, to the lands
j hereinafter described, for the pur
pose of securing a debt referred to
insaid deed, which deed is recorded
in the Clerk’s office of Toombs Su
perior Court in book 13 of deeds,
, page 235.
And whereas, in said deed, said
grantor gave to said grantee and as
signs the power to sell said lands in
case of default in the prompt pay
ment at maturiy, of interest or prin
cipaf nf said debt.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the
power so vested in the undersigned, i
which is more accurately shown by
reference to said deed and the un
dersigned will sell at public outcry
to the highest bidder, for cash, on
Tuesday, June 14th, 1927 during the!
j legallegal hours of sale before the i
Toombs County Court House door at
Lyons, Georgia, the lands described
in the aforesaid deed, to-wit:
All that tract or parcel of land
with improvements thereon lying and
being in the City of Vidalia, fifty
first (51st) distret of Toombs Coun
ty, Georgia, with fifty-eight (58)
acres, more or less, and bounded as
follows, to wit: On the north by
lands of Meadows, Leader & Rosan
sky, on the east by Meadows, Leader
& Rosansky, and land of S. P. Carr;
and on the south by North Railroad
Avenue, or right-of-way of the Sea
board Airline Railway, land of G.
E. Anderson and lands of Sanford;
and on the west by land of G. E. An- !
derson and by an alley or unnamed
street It being the same land as
that conveyed by J. W. A. Crawford,
Administrator of the estate of Aman- 1
da Crawford, to Mrs. Missiouri M.
Mulling by deed dated February 5,
1918, and recorded in deed book 8,
page 407, in the office of the Clerk
of Superior ourt of Toombs County,
Georgia.
The said deed first above mention
ed, was executed and delivered to
secure the payment of her certain I
promissory note for the sum of SISOO
dated November 26, 1924 and the !
i principal debt, bearing' interest at
the rate of seven per cent per annum.
Said principal debt is now past due
by the terms therof, and remains un
paid, s declared to be past due for
default in payment of interest due
May Ist, 1927, $52.50. The total
amount of principal and interest that ]
will be due on said debt on the date
of sale is $1585.53. Fee simple titles
will be made to the purchaser at said j
sale and the proceeds of such sale
will be applied first, to the payment
of said lebt wiwth interest and ex
penses of this proceeding, and the re
mainedr, f any, wall be paid over to
said Mrs. Missouri M. Mulling or her
legal representative.
Dated this 17th day of May, 1927.
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| ANNOUNCEMENT j
The J. F. Darby Bank I
Will Open on I
| MA Y 28th, 1927 |
ITHIS BANK IS A PRIVATE BANK i
(Not Incorporated) K
Will Have Resources Over [ h
QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS f
BEHIND ALL DEPOSITS $
WILL APPRECIATE ALL ACCOUNTS |
There Will be no Charges for Handling Any Account, Large or Small S)
Banking quarter* have been thoroughly remodeled and the
FACILITIES for handling your business will be up to the minute. 9,
THE J. F. DARBY BANK §
RAILROAD AVENUE VIDALIA, GEORGIA j
Boys In Gray Ask
Enforcement Os Tax
To Pay Pensioners
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Atlanta, Ga., May 17.—A request
of Confederate Veterans that the
families of Confederate Veterans and
all other good citizens aid in the en
forcement of the Georgia tax on cig
ars and cigarettes, is being broad- 1
cast over the state by John M. Van
diver, state commissioner of revenue,
whose department collects this tax. j
The request, in the form of a reso
lution adopted at a meeting of Geor
gia delegates at the recent Confeder
ate reunion in Tampa, is as follows:
The Resolution
“Whereas, the prompt payment of
the pensions due the soldiers and
widows of soldiers of the Confeder
acy depends in a large measure upon
collection of the cigar and cigarette
stamp taxes.
“Therefore, be it resolved that
i earnest appeal is hereby made to all
The Georgia Loan & Trust Co.
j By B. P. Jackson, Its Attorney-at-law
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1 The evasion of the law rests with
dealers, and all dealers can be forced
! to keep their stocks of cigars and
! cigarettes properly stamped if the
public will report violations,” Colonel
Vandiver said.
What this country needs, along
with a good five-cene cigar, is a five
cent appetite.
The “sticks” is that region where
a thief is just a thief instead of a
master criminal.
■ So few attain that nice balance
I midway between inferiority complex
| and swellhead.
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