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VOLUME XXV
*TOBACCO MARKET OPENS NEXT TUESDA V
THREE WAREHOUSES TWO SETS OF BUYERS
TOBACCO INDUSTRY
k IN UNITED STATES
HAS BIG GROWTH
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DURING THE YEAR 1926 THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE CONSUM
ED NEARLY 90 BILLION CIG
AETTES.
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The tobacco industry experienced
a remarkable growth in the past few
i Jtt rs, the Fourth Reserve Bank of
I upeveland says in a special survey
made on tobacco.
During the past ten years or more
the cigarette production has increased
almost ten times, the report says,
Citing that the 1926 output was ten
; times as great as that in 1910 and al
most twice as great as in 1920. Dur
ing 1926, the American people con
sumed nearly 90 billion cigarettes, or
about 800 per capita, 7 billion cigars.
. 372 million pounds of smoking and
chewing tobacco, and 38 million
pounds of snuff.
{ Cigars, smoking and chewing to
tcco have made no gains in the
st ten years, while the demand for
chewing tobacco has shown a decided
off, the report adds.
I|uring 1926, the United States pro
with North Carolina leading with 394
million pounds, and Kentucky second
with 375 million pounds. Virginia
came third with 132 million pounds.
South Carolina raised 58 million
pounds and Georgia 34) million pounds
The 1925 output was 1377 million
i* pounds.
Of Kentucky’s total 223 million
’ Abounds was Burley tobacco, and 391
Jk-llion pounds of North Carolina’s
" “'total wafts flue cured.
“Tobacco is now grown in all parts
Os the world, altho originally an
American produoft,” the report says,
adding, “but fchie country still pro
duces around 35 per cent of the
world’s supply. About 15 states grow
tobacco commercially, the great bulk
of the crop coming from four states
—Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennes
see and Virginia. Os the other states
Georgia and South Carolina in the
South and Connecticut, Maryland,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in
tife North are the most important.
“A substantial amount of our to
bacco is exported. In 1926 exports
were nearly 500 million pounds of
all types, or about 38 per cent of the
crop. The dark types are sent abroad
to alarge exbent, going mostly to Eu
rope. Considerable flue-cured to
bacco is also exported, largely to
Great Britian and China. Attemps
Rave been made to develop foreign
markets for burley, but as yet these
are of little consequence, although
Italy has taken a small amount
» “One convincing evidence of the
growth of the tobacco industry in this
country is found in the rise in the
net earnings cf seven important to-
Rftfrn manufacturing corporations
•Lring the past eight years. Earn-
Yhgs of these concerns have shown a
steady gain except in 1923, which
fell below 1922. The most striking
feature is that tobacco earnings were
rot affected during the 1920-1921
depression; in fact, they showed a
nearly all industrial lines were ex
'periencing tremendous declines in
profits, many reporting deficits. In
actual figures, net earnings of the
seven corporations rose from $42,-
154,000 in 1919 to $85,071,000 in
1926, a gain of 101.8 per cent.
“There are a number of types of
tobacco grown in the United States
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~ MR. FARMER:
THE MERCHANTS AND BUSINESS MEN OF VIDALIA WELCOME YOU
A THROUGH THE COLUMNS OF THIS PAPER TO
4 VIDALIA
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VIDALIA MARKET
TO GET LAURENS i
COUNTY “WEED”,
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DUBLIN /PRESS HAS THE FOL
LOWING TO SAY OF VIDALIA
TOBACCO MARKET.
“The sale of Georgia’s bright leaf j
tobacco crop, which experts estimate
will total over fifty million pounds f
this season, will begin one week from
next Tuesday, August 2. Initial auc
tions at all the 23 Georgia markets
will take place on that date. It is ex- 1
pected that sales will be the heavi
est ever known on opening day. It
is pointed out that the curing season
has been under way for nearly a
month now and some of the tobacco
fields have been entirely denuded of
their leaves.
There are some three or four hun
dred acres planted to tobacco in this
county this year, and owing to the
fact that no buyers could be secured
for Dublin, consequently preventing
the conducting of a market at this
point, the growers will be forced to
either ship or haul their product to
some of the markets already estab
lished. Presumably Vidalia will be
the choice of those raising tobacco in
Laurens county this year, there being
better facilities at this point than at
any nearby market, the distance to
haul or ship shorter, and by reason
of the fact that there will be two sets
of buyers at Vidalia this saeson, in
sures to the growers the very top of
the market for their product.
The Vidalia Advance of last week
commenting on the tobacco situation
with regard to the Vidalia market,
had this to say: (
“On August 2nd the Vidalia To
bacco Market, as well as those all over
the state, will open for the sale of
bright leaf tobacco, the local market
offering three large warehouses, cov
ering six acres of floor space and
managed by energetic and efficient
tobacco salesmen and patronized by
the best tobacco growers in the state.
“According to the best forward ad
vices that can be obtained, the mar
ket here should sell at the smallest
estimated figures eight million pounds
of tobacco this season and it is pos
sible for this tonnage to go as high as
ten million pounds, which is evidenced
by the fact that several hundreds
acres of the weed are growing and be
ing cropped right at the doors of the
warehouses almost, and the estimat
ed acreage for the county being
around four thousand acres.
“With the good grade and amount
of tobacco raised in this section and
with the increase in sales each year,
Vidalia’s market this year will be
supplied with two sets of buyers, and
all indications are that in the very
near future, Vidalia will have the
largest tobacco market in the state.”
Regular Kiwanis Club
Meet On Last Monday
Night Was Called Off
The regular weekly meeting of the
I local Kiwanis Club, which is held on
every Monday night at the New Vida
lia Hotel was called off on account
of the death of Dr. Thomas C. Thomp
son, which occured Monday morning
of this week. The regular meeting
will be held next Monday night as
usual.
SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN VIDALIA
DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B.EST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
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VIDALIA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927
DR. T.C. THOMPSON
| BURIED TUESDAY AT
THE CITY CEMETERY
DEATH OCCURS AFTER AN ILL
NESS OF SEVERAL WEEKS AT
VIDALIA HOSPITAL.
Tuesday afternoon, at four o’clock,
amid a large concourse of sorrowing
friends and relatives, the funeral
rites were held for Dr. T. C. Thomp
son, whose death occurred Monday,
July 25, at the Vidalia Hospital.
1 Dr. Thompson’s untimely death—
which came after several weeks’ ill
ness—has saddened, not only his city,
county and district, but the State at
large, for he was recognized and
valued as a surgeon as well as an
ideal Christian gentlemen,
j As a mark of respect his entire
staff of nurses, with other graduate
nurses of his institution attended in
a body.
Dr. Thompson was graduated from
the University of Georgia Medical
School in 1908 soon married Miss
Sadie Young of Augusta and located
in his home town, Vidalia. He went |
for post-gaduate work to Poly-Clinic
Hospital in New York, and in the
early months of the World War be
came a member of the staff at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota,
where he worked for about three,
years.
In 1919, upon his return from
Mayo’s, Dr. Thompson purchased the :
Vidalia Hospital and has operated it
since, limiting his practice to general
surgery. At that time it was ca
pacitated for fifteen beds and had
no training school. So successful
wa shis surgery, that his practice grew
1 rapidly and in 1922 he was forced to
build an extra wing. The early part
o fthis summer construction was be
gun on another large, beautiful wing,
which was to be opened the first of .
July. The building today has a 65
bed capacity anu a class A Training
school of fourteen nurses. On the
hospital staff is Dr. J. E. Mercer,
who is in charge of the medical de
partment and whose ability and loyal
co-operation has meant much to the
success of the institution.
1 Ira 1925 he was made a fellow of
the American College of Surgeons
which convened that year at Phila
delphia. His other professional af
filiations were American Medical As
sociation Southern Medical, State
Medical, ’ Twelfth District Medical;
Chairman of the Board of Council
lors of Georgia, Councillor of the
Twelfth Congressional District Medi
cal Society, Surgeon for the Seaboard j
Air Line, Georgia & Florida and M.
D. & S. railroads.
j In religious circles he was capable l
and prominent as in professional and I
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GOOD TOBACCO LAND
Near The Vidalia Market
FOR SALE CHEAP ;
1041/4 acres, 4 miles south of Vidalia, three-horse farm,
cleared, partly stumped; good 6 room house, pecan grove i
and other fruits; some young tmber. This place is cheap
at $30.00 per acre. Terms can be arranged.
100 acres unimproved land, within 3 miles of Vidalia,
at $15.00 per acre. Terms.
Come and see these and other bargains.
J. B. BREWTON
At Georgia Tobacco Warehouse
Vidalia, Georgia
GEORGIA HOG
RAISERS HAVE
BIG ADVANTAGE
CONDITIONS HERE ARE MORE
FAVORABLE THAN IN WEST,
DR. M. C. HALL ASSERTS.
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Dr. Maurice C. Hall and Dr. E W.
Sheets, both of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, D. C.,
spent Thursday and Friday in Col
quit county for the purpose of study- |
| ing the progress and results of swine
parasites investigations and control
measures which were established in
the county last year under the di
rection of Dr. E M. Nighbert and J.
W. Connelly. !
Dr. Hall is chief of the Zoologcal
Division and Dr. E W. Sheets is chief I
of the U. S. Bureau of Animal In
dustry. The work of both divisions
is contingent, one upon the other and
both gentlemen are visiting several
states together to observe the prog
ress of other experimental work be
fore returning to Washington,
j Arriving on the early morning train (
they were met by Dr. Nighbert, H.
McDowell, County Agent Young and
J. W. Connellelly and after a hurried
breakfast spent the entire day in j
visiting farms where the sanitation
'plan is being followed and byway
of contrast where it is not. ,
j “I am convinced,” said Dr. Hall,
“that hog raisers here advan
tages over the corn belt of the Mid- >
die West, in raising clean,. healthy i
pigs, because the Georgia farmer can
have more cleaa cultivated fields and j
grazing crops throughout the year in I
which to fallow pigs, thus escaping
many eonditions that seriously affect j
the health and growth of the young
animals.
i “We are assembling valuable in
formation concerning some of the
troubles hogs raisers are experiencing,
in this section of the country. This
is possible only through the interest
and co-operation of the man on the
farm. We are highly pleased with
the results so far accomplished and
in the course of a few more years
work, this experiment will bring out
facts heretofore not known with re
ference to worm control in pigs.
“Our aim in the work here at Moul- •
trie is to find out facts and apply j
the information to practical farm
methods. If the damage by kidney
worms and intestinal worms can be
i overcome, which at this time looks
i promising, much can be saved to the
| hog grower which means more profits
land satisfaction in growing hogs and
| establishing a dependable swine in
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PTOMAINE ATTACK
IS FATAL TO LAND!
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STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTEND
ENT WAS STRIKEN LAST JUNE
WAS RECENTLY RE-ELECTED.
Atlanta Ga., July 25.—Forte E.
; Land state superintendent of schools, '
died hre today.
Mr. Land was 49 years of age and
was serving his second term as head
of the school department of Gorgia.
Death resulted from effects of
ptomaine poisoning contracted at Car
rollton, Ga., when Mr. Land went
there to deliver a commencement ad
there early n June to deliver a com
mencement address. He had been in
j Wesley Memorial hospital since that
time. j
Mr. Land was born June
near Bullards, Twiggs county, Ga.,
the son of the late Henry Freeman
Land, Confederate soldier and Mourn
ing Aldington Land. ,
| He was graduated from Emory col
lege, A. B. degree, 1901, and he mar
ried inDawson, Ga., March 6, 1912,
Mrs. Susie (Barrow) Gurr.
( He was principal of the high school
at Cordele, 190 A-2 and superinten
dent of schools at Dawson Ga., from
1908-1912.
j Jn 1912, he became one of the
supervisors of schools in the state
following the creation of the three su
pervisors in 1911. From this position
he became supervisor of rehabilita
tion in 1920, which position he held
until 1923. Following this work, he
!was made state director of vocational
educations in which work he aemained
until he was elected stafe superinten
dent of schools in 1925.
He was recently re-electe9 to serve
a second term as state superintendent
; and was sworn in on June 25 last.—
Macon Telgraph.
Summer School Here
>i Opens Next Monday
All pupils who desire to take ad
• vantage of the Summer School, will
report at school building Monday 1 ,
August the first at 8:45 A. M. Mrs.
M. A. Shaw will have the school in
charge. The fee will be $4.00 for
one subject and $7.00 for two sub
‘ jects, paid in advance. Get your
tickets from Miss Zenobia Peterson
i before reporting. No one will be al
-1 lowed to enter the school without
! paying the fee. If for any reason a
pupil should withdraw, the money
wil be refunded after deducting for
the days attending.
W. L. DOWNS % Supt.
Arkwright Is Elected
Director Southeastern
Light & Power Co.
New York, July 28.—P. S. Ark
' wright, president of the Georgia Pow
-1 er company and vice-president of the
! National Electric Light Association,
' one of the best known public utility
men in the country, today was elected
a director of the Southeastern Power
( and Light Company.
1
nia rmrt in PTOcenuion
You kn«w how the Roturlans do at
thalr dinners, when they stand up and
tell In what business they are en
gaged. George Marble tells of an tin
dertaker, when called oo at one of
these meetingr who rose and said, “I
follow the medical profession.”—Cup
per's Weekly
VIDALIA LED eN
PRICES PAID LAST
TOBACCO SEASON
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WITH MORE ADVANTAGES OVER'
MARKETS THIS YEAR; EX
PECTS TO LEAD AGAIN.
! All preparations have been made
for the opening on Tuesday of next
week of the three large tobacco ware
houses in this city. The warehouse
men have arrived on the scene and
the buyers, bookkeepers, clerks, and
others are arriving daily. In fact,,
the warehousemen have been here
for several days, during which tme
they have covered the entire tobacco
section in the interest of their ware
: houses.
The prospects have never been any
brighter for a successful tobacco mar
ket, according to those conected witfn
the local warehouses.
1 Vidalia’s three large houses are the
most modern and best equiped in
the entire Georgia tobacco belt. The
opening of the market here will
mean that more than one hundred
people wil lbe brough here, who are
interested in the market in some way
either as buyers fro mthe many large
tobacco companies or directly con
nected with the operation of the
warehouses.
It is expected that during the first
week and throughout the season all
of the warehouses will be crowed to
capcity at each day’s sale with to
bacco growers from Toombs and ad
joining counties. According to in
formation received most of the weed
fro mthis entire section, including
many counties that do not join us
will be brought to this market due
to the fact that this market will be
better equiped to handle this proi
-luc which assures the growers a
much better price than elsewhere.
Two sets of buyers will also rneam
that not only will good prices be re
ceived, but the tobacco will be sold
much faster, giving the grower more
time in the city.
I The estimated acreage of tobacco*
in Georgia shows a 37 per cent in
-1 crease over 1926—71,100 acres com
pared with 51,900:. Last year the
state produced 39963,000 pounds.
The indications at this time are that
1 Georgia growers will sell over 50,-
' 000,000 pounds thiß season. With
better average prices expected this.
1 should bring between twelve and fif>-
r ,teen million dollars. > m't Jk.it:
[ With double sales this season ancf
ian increase of 37 per cent in acre
lage in this section, Vidalia will .•«?!>
at least 7,000,000 pounds. As Yi
j darlia led all other markets in price
last year, the growers of this section
J will no doubt market their tobacco
I here as double sales will take care of
’ i the offerings without congestion or
delay. .
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The new Vann Tobacco warehouse
will be managed by Messrs. Vann, and
Morrow; the Vidalia Tobacco - ware
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-Ihouse by Messrs. Bowland and Kut*
I trell and the Georgia warehouse by
Messrs. Hester, Winstead & Hester.-
large waVrehouses and two sets of
I The idalia market not only afford*
buyers, but the men in *.‘iarge are
gentlemen of long years’ expferiertee-'
in this line. In fact, thay are thd?
best to had and they are interested
in you as a grower md are anxious
that you receive a £ ood price for
your product..
NUMBER 33.