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AD The Newt Os Toombt tad Surrounding Counties
102-Pound Melon
Camilla, Ga., July 21.—G. M. Coch
ran, fanner of Mitchell county, liv
ing at Flint, has raised some except
ionally fine watermelons this season.
The largest one so far weighed 102
pounds and several have been brought
in that weighed up in the eighties. A
fifty-pound melon ki his patch is a
common sight.
Peaches Shipped Total
11,750 Carloads Up To
Monday of Last Week
Reports received Thursday by the
Georgia Peach Growers’ Exchange
ihowed that a total of 38 carloads of
peaches moved from Georgia to the
northern and eastern markets on
Monday of this week. This brings
the total shipment of peaches this
year to 11,750 carloads.
W. C. Bewey, general manager of
the exchange, announced through the
News several days that the commer
cial movement this year is not ex
pected to reach 12,000 carlots. This
year’s crop was much smaller than
was first anticipated.
Rlr? J. Me Mann of
Lyons Is Appointed
Fertilizer Inspector
Mr. J. Me Mann of Lyons, Ga., rte.
A, has been apointed fertilizer in
spector for the following counties:
Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chat
ham, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Lib
erty, Mclntosh, Screven, Tattnall,
Baldwin, Columbia, Glascock, Han
cock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie,
Richmond, Talliaferro, Warren, Wil
kinson arid Washington.
Any one at any time, that would
like to have their fertilizer inspected,
don’t hesitate to call on him, as he
will be only too glad to aid you in
every way he can.
Mr. Mann operates a twelve-horse '
farm in Toombs county himself and
he well knows the need of good fer- j
tilizer. So any way he can co-oper
ate with you in this he will only be
glad to do so.
He has a large territory but will re
spond to your call as early as possi
ble. —Glennville Sentinel.
Packard and Buick
Collidge on Cotton
Belt Friday Night
E. C. Romph of Miami, Fla., and a
party of friends narrowly esaaped
when their straight eight) Packard
touring car collided with a Buick
aedan driven by Mrs. H. A. Threlkeld
and a party of ladies of Vidala, on
the Coton Belt Highway just south of
Lyons Fridhy night. It sa id that
rs. Threlkeld’s car came over the sum
mit of a hill unexpectedly to the oth
er party, blinding them, which is ad
vanced as the cause of the accident.
Neither knew that the other was near
its is said, but Mrs. Threlkeld is said
to have been on her side of the road
when the cars hit.
The Packard was stipped of fend
ers and running board on one side,
considerable damage resulting. The
Buick was also considerably damag
ed. No one was injured.
Mr. Romph was accompanied by a
friend from Miami and other
guests from the east. He was re
turning from a vacation trip to Ash
vlle, N. C.—Lyons Progress.
Tobacco Company
Plans Expansion
Waycross, Ga., July 18.—The Gold
Leaf Cigarette and Tobacco company,
gpecial representatives who were in
ft aycros this week to investigate the
location here of a tobacco redrying
plant, announce a program of exten
sion which wil ltake in a large part
the new South Georgia bright leaf
tobacco belt.
The Georgia corporation, with a
manufacturing plant already located
In Hahira is organized as a manufac
turing and redrying company. Pro
posed plants will be located at Bain
oridge, Blackshear, Douglas, Fitzger
jld, Jesup, Moultrie. Nashville, Tif
;Oif, Thomasville, Valdosta, Vidal ia
tnd Waycross, with Atlanta and Ma
;on as warehouse points.
; The authorized capital stock of the
ompany is $500,00, all common
toek.
Officers of the company point out
hat in South Georgia is grown the
inest grade cigarette and smoking
obacco in the world, and that it is
nly logical that manufacturing
lants be placed in the heart of this
rea. The company proposes to spec
ie in the manufacturing of cigar-
When In Vidalia
—-ritit
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First Georgia Cotton
Arrives in Savannah
And Brings 70 Cents
| Savannah, Ga., July 20. —The first
bale of the new Georgia cotton crop
was received at Savannah Tuesday.
It came from J. J. Boswell, of Meigs,
Thomas county, and was consigned to
! the Savannah Cotton Factorage com
pany.
| Unofficial classers pronounced it a
very fair grade but owing to some
mixture of grade it was classed as
low middling. It is about a week
earlier than the average Georgia first
bale.
About ten minutes later another
bale arrived from Georgia. It was
shipped by the Georgia Cotton com
pany from Moultrie consigned to the
Savannah Coton exchange. This
bale was much inferior in grade to
the official first bale, but was not of
fially classed.
The first bale was later in the
morning sold at auction. P. D. Daf
fin officiated as autioneer, and bid
ding was spirited. The bale was
: knocked down to W. Q. Hughes, act
ing for Savannah exporters at the
price of 70 cents a pound. This was
5 oents better than the first Florida
bale bought.
Immediately after the sale of the
first bale, Mr. Daffiri offered the oth
er bale which had missed the “first
bale’ ’honor by the narrow margin of
ten mftiutes. Bidding on this bale
was not so active, but the bale was
sol dto J. B. Glover & Co. at 30 cents
j
a pound.
Signing Up Farmers
To Cotton Agreement
- -
Thomasville, Ga., July 20.— 9. M.
Massey of Barwick, in this county,
who is local agent for the Georgia
Cotton Growers Co-operative Mar
keting Association is going over the
county getting the farmers to sign
up as mebers of that organization.
| Th<*nas county farmers each year
are becoming more interested in the
matter of co-operative sales for the
Steadying of the markets for farm
produce, and Mr. Massey is meeting
with good success in securing a credi
table membership in this territory.
He is also getting signatures of bank
ers and other business men to a mani
festo for the betterment of market
ing conditions relating to agricultur
al products, and this document also
is being generally signed by these
business men.
Large Order For Rails
Is Placed By Southern
Atlanta, Ga., July 21.—Purchase of
| 38,325 tons of new steel rrfils, enough
| to lay 225 nriles of track, for delivery
during the remainder of 1927, is an
; nounced by the Southern Railway
, system.
i Os the total purchased, 33,350 tons
jwill be of the 100-pound weight, now
! the standard fqr the Southern’s main
| lines, and 4,975 tons of the 85-pound
weight. All will be rolled at the
Ensley plant of the Tennessee Com
pany, near Birmingham, Ala., with
the exception of 050 tons bought
from the Illinois Steel Company for
use on the St. Louis-Louisville lines.
This brings the Southern’s pur
chase of rail for 1927 laying to 85,-
1150 tons, sufficient to lay 542 miles
of track.
jettes and high grade smoking tobac-
I co, realizing that this is the most
profitable form of tobacco manufac
; twe. The operating of redrying
plants for the storing and curing of
leaf tobacco is incidental to the manu
facturing objective.
The company has purchased and
owns in fee 26 acres of land at Ha
hira, six acres of this land being re
quired for the plant which is now be
! ing completed as the first plant of
(he Gold Leaf Cigarette and Tobacco
i company.
High School Girls
Give Tasty Recipes
For Ham and Bacon
Each year high-sehool girls, com-
peting for the Ntional Live Stock and
Meat Board university scholarships,
submit tasty meat recipes. Below
are given a few of the very good ones
for ham and bacon.
Scalloped Ham and Bacon
In a suacepan two tablespoons of
butter; add two tablespoons of flour
and stir until the mixture is smooth
and bubbling throughout, then add
one and one-half cups of chicken
broth or light cream and stir constant
ly until brought to the boiling point.
Add one-fourth teaspoon of salt and
cook two minutes. Have ready one
cup of finely chopped ham and one
cup of celery, which has been boiled
until tender. Place the ham and the
celery in alternatae layers fn a but
tered baking dish and pour the sauce
over them. Cover the top with ai
generous layer of grated cheese, dust
with paprika, place in the oven until
a delicate golden brown.
Ham Fillets
Cut a thick skee of ham into strips
about one inch wide, trim neatly and
let stand in cold milk for an hour.
Drain, dip in fine bread crumbs, then,
in beaten egg, and again in crumbs.
Panfry in drippings and serve on a
hot platter garnished with corn frit
ters.
Baked Squash with Bacon
Peel squash and cut in convenient
sized pieces. Sprinkle with salt and
cover with slices of bacon. Put in a
baking dish and cover closely. Bake
until the squash is tender. Just be
fore time to serve, remove cover and
let bacon become crisp.
Scalloped Onion with Bacon
4 medium-sized onions
pound sliced bacon
Flour, salt, pepper, milk
Peel and cut onions into thin slices.
Cook the bacon until brown. Butter
a baking dish and place in it first a
layer of bacon and then one of onion.
Sprinkle with pepper, salt and flour.
Repeat until the ingredients are used
up. Add milk until it reaches the top
layer. Bake in a moderate even un
til the onions are tender and the milk
pretty well absorbed.
Ham Tomato Toast
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 tablespoon chopped green
pepper
2 tablespoons bqptter
1 14 cups stewed tomatoes
14 cap ground ham
1 egg
Cook onion and pepper in butter
until soft; add tdmato and simmer ten
minutes. Add ham and tKe egg,
slightly beaten. Cook until the mix
ture has thickened. Sdrve on slice
of crisp toast.
Farmers As World Power
It has long been a tradition in
American politics that the farmer is
the most important single unit in the
development of sound democracy.
Bat now it is beginning to appear that
the farmer is also a key to world
peace and the development of good
will in international relations.
The League of Nations is now lay
ing great stress on the education of
agricultural populations in the funda
mentals of world affairs, and a re
cent report to the League on Ameri
can philanthrophy in eastern Europe
asserts that “the most important part
of the educational work of the Near
East Relief is in is agricultwal
schools and farm demonstration cen
ters.*’
In studying the work of these
American schools for the peasants of
Armenia and Greece, the League’s
observer state's that this educational
program s probably the soundest pos
sble way of creating in the minds of
any people a recognition of the in
ternational brotherhood of man.
Educating the upper strata in any
country is not enough—this was the
primary cause of the failure of the
Greek and Rotnan empires. Ameri
can phikvnthrophy, in its woi’k hi
Europe and Asia, has recognzed that
education is efl'ctive only as it reach
es evry class of the population.
X great majority of the graduates
from the American schools in Armen
ia go into the agricultural pursuits
o ftheir countries. Therefore' every
child is required to become familiar
with the elementary processes of pro
ducing food and necessities of life.
The children are not trained to be
come “white collar’ ’men and wo
men. They are not educated out of
their inviroment. Ths s a new and
sane development n educaton, whch
wl lbe watched wth keen interest by
students of international affairs the
world over.
Loose Door Knob
j When a door knob remains loo'*
for some time the setscrew thread*
In the square 'jplmlle are likely to be
come so bad'y worn as to be worth
| less. Instead of recapping the spindle
' find fitting a large machine screw.
! simply turn a round-headed Imiss-wood
1 screw of suitable size Into the old hole,
j The Iron will cut threads in the brass
j and bind the screw so that it will not
1 work loose. —I’opular Science Monthly
THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
i MORE FACTS ABOUT THE PROSPEROUS j
| CITY OF VIDALIA 'i
C i
C o <
Cj This article reproduced from i*sue of February 17, 1927, of the
Vidalia Advance f'
~ o \
The youngest big industry of this section is the Tobacco Grow- (
ing Industry. The business did not grow in this country like a
J>l weed, but on the other is a fostered industry,” hand-made and
V bottle-nourished” by some of the far-sighted citizens, who had a I
V vision of the importance of the tobacco crop as a money crop and of r
6 the various by-products that would develop along with the culture of |j
n tobacco in commercial quantities. <
This esason will open the seventh successful year in Vidalia '
7as a tobacao market, and this year will be the first year that the j
planters of the immediate section about the city will profit by the *■
”, fact of having a Tobacco Selling Market at their very dood; the hi* [
t) tory of former years showing that the market that was established (
£ six annums ago has been used mainly by planters of adjoining coun
p ties rather than those of Toombs.
However, this year, Toombs tobacco growers are going to plant ,
W over three thousand acres in tobacco, the beds having been prepared (
r on a scale of this size—land already being broken for this much acre
i age and arrangements now being made for barns to cure three thous
•g and acres of bright leaf when it is gathered in the late summer and 4
T marketed.
In this section of the state experienced growers average a
o thousand pounds of tobacco from each acre planted to the weed, t
7 A five-acre patch is called a quota for a one-horse farm, and five (
/ acres can be handled through one barn. With three thousand acres P
n planted in this county it will be seen that six hundred farmers have v
\ become tobacco farmers, that six hundred barns, with flue equipt- <
* ment, must be maintained and that an average yield of three million
7 pounds of Toombs county tobacco will be furnished to the ware- -
!] houses doing busness here next season. When tl*e three million \
J" home-grown pounds are added to the other poundage produced in the
B territory north of the Altamaha river—the tobacco from this terri- r
o tory geographically belongs to the Vidalia market—the reader can /J
yl readily understand why the big buyers and manufacturers of Georgia
r bright leaf tobacco have sent word to Vidalia that they will have two i
h complete sets of buyers on he market next season. The statisticians
k arf the manufacturers know that the weed will be on the market, '
jr and the manufacturers are making preparations to get it. Boarding
ft and rooming facilities of this place were taxed to the fullest last r
\ season to care for one set of buyers and the citizens of the city will [i
? again be confronted with the problem early in August of this year, I
M having to do with the housing and feeding of double the number of <i
V etc., as they did last season.
* According to figures furnshed by experienced men, the cost of ,
growing and handling a tobacco crop amounts to two hundred dollars <■
\ per acre, and the income should be about three hundred dollars per <
/ acre. The income is bassed in a thousand pounds of tobacco at 30
cents per pound. ]
The three thousand acres planted this year will therefore re- (
y quire expenditures amounting to over half a million dollars before f
n any returns are realized. This money will be spent with local mer- {
§ chants, for fertilizer, machinery, tobacco bed cloth, labor, clothes ,
p and artions, and the poifit to the growers of the weed at one hundred g
( dollars per acre wil amount to over a quarter of a million dollars {
' spent in the county, which comes in August and may also be spent L
3 locally, for more clothing, furniture, life insurance, etc., £
f making in all three quarters of a million dollars that will be circulat- <
) ed in Toombs county through the new industry in the next eight «
i months and showing, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the tobacco in- t
? dustry has assumed importance in this county second to none, and is
' rapidly assuming proportions that will easily make it of very first
j importarlce in the commercial life of the county. .
*J Os prime importance to the tobacco growing industry is the \
warehouses through which the tobacce is sold, and without which fa- r
t cility, no industry could be maintained. Vidalia is equipped at this v
'L tfme with two of the largest and best arranged warehouses in the \
■J State of Georgia. The houses are of about equal size and have floor f
i space ‘sufficient to accommodate a quarter of a million pounds at {
P one time. With tw'o sets of buyers, this amount es tobacao can be <;
b sold and shipped every day throughout the sasson with ease.. <
It has beeri announced that the Vidalia Tobacco Warehouse will
\ be operated this season by Messrs. Bowland and Kuttrell, both of 5
< whom are well known in this section, and the the Georgia Tobacco <
y Warehouse will be again unddr the management of Messrs. Hester, -
f Winstead & who have operated it successfully for the past
V two seasons. “
P Every business man in Toombs county is interested in this in- <■
dustry and may share in the distribution of the values during the <
L next eight months if arrangements are made to handle goods required I
S by he growers and buyers of the crop. j
z (Reproduced from recent issue of The Vidalia Advanc)
Situated on a ridge, just half way between the beautiful valley
Pof the Oconee river and the picturesque, rambling stream of the |
Ohoopee, it is easy to see wdiy Vidalia commands a vantage ground •
( unsurpassed for the location of a planned city in the near fu- *
7) ture. Most gifted by nature in being ideally located among low, “
) rolling hils and broad fields, with a climate comparable to Southern <
S France, it may easily be said that a “garden spot of the Wire Grass” (
j j
\ has been formed. j
p The rich red and brown of the autumn harvests scarcely pass
i) from view ere the vendure of springtime clothes the landscape with G
a panorama of green growing fields and gardens of roses, violets,
jp daffodils and jasmine. (
Had the tribes of Tomo-chi-chi the wisdom, culture and oppor- \
! tunity that we now have, history’s page would tell a very different <
story, and a different story it shall tell, open to this section of “Dear <
. Old Georgia ” since the present progressive citizenry have begun a f.
£ march; r.ot thrilling with war paint and feathers, but with enthusi-
Tj a sm and co-operative spirit, up to the minute, in zeal for a greater ,
> South Georgia. ,
City-building is not a one-man job, salemanship of the highest £
V quality should be cultured by each individual, and selling “Vidalia to [
ft Georgians,” is no mean slogan. If you haven’t “hit the trail,” fall (
b in, fellow citizens, and let’s go!
N Making Vidalia a “city beutiful” is call that comes to every |
k citizen. Much has been accomplished; but a great deal can be don.e (j
rj if every one will do his part, J
ft i
—WANTED—
Fifty S. S. Workers
fiTyou want to know more about
Sunday school work, and if you want
to be a better and more efficient
worker in the Sunday school, take
training in this Cokesberry Training
School.
Where?—At the Public School Au
ditorium at Uvalda, Ga, A nice place
to go and al lconveniencas for the
work.
When?—Next Monday evening,
August Ist at eight o’clock, the first
session will begin and will have a ses
sion each evening till Friday evening,
when the school wil come to a close.
What?—Two Cokesberry courses
will be offered. The Small Sunday
School, Its Organization and Admin
istration. —M. A. Shaw, instructor.
The other coarse will be given by
Rev. J. Frank Snell. Either of these
courses will do and Sunday school
worker good. Try it!
Who? —Every pastor, every officer
and teacher and scholar of any and
every Sunday school within reach of
it. I am sure some of you would
love to be better and more efficient
workers than you are, if so, this is
the time and the place and a rare op
portunity.
What Will It Cost?— Nothing but
your expenses coming and going and
the price of the book (60c).
Can we count on you Mr. Sunday
school Man Woman? Answer; Yes.
W. B.’CHESHIRE, Group Supt.
World Grows Smaller
That the world is growing
in the sense thpt the nations are get
ting closer together in thoughts and
sympathies is illustrated by the visit
this month to India of Charles V.
Vickrey, general secretary of the
Near East Relief. Americans gen
erally think of the Near East Relief
as a purely American organization,
but its work has for some time had
the active aid and participation of
people in many foreign countries, and
lest year it enlisted the co-operation
of organizations from more than fifty
nations.*
In India, Mr. Vickrey will confer
at some length with Gandi, the great
religious leader and philosopher, who
has long been interested in the inter
national philanthrophy in the Near
East. Mr. Gandhi is a thorough be
liever in the Golden Rule as a guid
ing principle so rnations as well as
for individuals, and his support will
mean a great deal for the internaton
al Golden Rule movement fostered
by Mr. Vickrey through his philan
thropic activities for the children of
Bible lands.
In his present trip around the
world, Mr. Vickrey has already pre
sented his credentials as a “Golden
Rule Ambassador” from America to
the peoples of Japan, Australia,
China and Siam. Most people look
upon the Near East Relief as influ
encing a few millions of
people in Turkey, Palestine,
Greece and Armenia. But close ob
servers travelling through eastern
Europe and western Asia get a new
concepton of geography and nterna
tional relations, and they find that
American philanthrophy has become
an influence for good in every coun
try of the world. Constructive phil
anthropy, according to Mr. Vickrey,
is contributing more largely than any
other force to intexmational good will,
justice, righteousness and world peace
Are You Fair To
The Merchants of
Your Home Town?
When money is slack, when crops
fail; when credit is needed it is the
home town merchant whom we seek
for friendly service. He tides us
over with credit; he charges no inter
est; he provides us with reliable,
guaranteed merchandise, fairiy pric
ed.
In short, he “holds the bag for us.”
That is why he deserves all our pa
tronage in times of plenty, as well
as in days of stress.
And isn’t it a pity that there are
many who use him merely as a lean
ing post—to tide them over the lean
days and use thedr cash to fill the
coffers of the big town mail order
houses who wouldn’t trust them over
night, with or without interest.
We all need that merchant, we
need his confidence, his friendship.
Our town needs his enteijprise—the
service he renders in handling only
guaranteed, first grade goods that
he is here to stand back of day in
and day out.
Let’s give him our cash when we
have it. Let’s pay his bills as prompt
ly as we can. Let’s earn and merit
the confidence he has placed in us
and in our community. Let’s sup
port him—we ned ehim and he needs
our trade and our unselfish good
will. “BE FAIR.”