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THE VIDALIA ADVANCE
VOLUME XXV
VIDALIA MARKET LEADSSTmTE INTOTALSALES
PROSPECTS FOR THREE SETS OF BUYERS BEFORE END OF SEASON
OBSERVATIONS FROM THE GALLERY OF THE
GEORGIA SENATE
* The senate is doing such little
things in such a little way. The mem
bers who came with a sincere wish to
serve their state are handicapped in
every conceivable way. If not by
actual opposition, it is by the modern
“Greeks who came bearing gifts”
which bring an opportunity that “you
and you alone, can make something
of.” These gifts are usually in the
tform of a chairmanship of an obscure
nmittee before whom no important
is are placed.
So the fight is on, really two fights.
A civil war in the senate, Patriotic
Senators against Senator Politicians,
and the other tilt between the gover
nor and the senate.
To quote a local paper “that Gover
nor Hardman should have gently but
firmly declined to accede to the “pe
tition” of certain senators that he ap
point Mr. Holder chairman of the
highway board, should not surprise
any one particularly. This senatorial
’ petitioning of the the Governor was
rather an unusual proceeding.” The
•Senate will have adjourned before the
people shall have found that this is
rather an unusual senate.
senate that will dare anything
-"'■r arry its point. We will not argue
trie directions of the points—they are
taken in diver ways. Darts have been
launched at the State Banking De
partment, at the Co-op Marketing,
the Public Service Commission and
in some cases at each other. In fact,
a larger part are at each other, in
that there are senators financially or
politicaly interested in every one of
'these “questionable” operations.
chief reason for this strife
££s< back further than the election
for the President of the senate,
which was the first skirmish in the
open. It dates back to the election
for governor. It is very unusual
situation that finds the two candi
dates for this office still in the fight
after the election is over.
The senate is divided two ways
Holder ar.d Hardman. This, of
course, is natural, but unfortunately
it seems that neither the Governor
nor the Senate will leave personali
ties out of the issue. It is the opin
ion of some in on the “know” that
i£*J:he Governor had not expressed
his opinion as to the candidate that
he planned to appoint to fill Mr.
Holder’s shoes, that there would have
been no petition. It seems that the
Senators feel that there would be
something personal in naming Mr.
Neel “Highway Man ”
One way or the other, I am re
minded of a story they tell back m
1920 when the discussion of candi
dates for president came up. One
plausible reasoD why Harding was
nominated was given by Senaor
Erandegee at Chicago, where he had
a great deal to do with the nomina
tion “There ain’t any first raters
this year. This ain’t any 1880 or
any 1904. We haven’t any John
Annans or Theodore Rosevelbn
S ve got a lot or second raters and
Harding is the best of the
second raters.” And such is the fix
that the Senate of Georgia fin s
self in petitioning the Oovernor of
Georgia to reappoint Holder a
chairman of the highway board Bu
it 1S very hard for the Governor to se
-11 * hv Mr Holder because
* said to»' Hc was
rather
choose Mr. Hold t*_ hope , that the
Mr Neel, the m - to
Governor will con the sen
spank these litt e 0 ch jidish a thing,
at, -ho have done so word§
from two sense-. any
F theyh thlt the P Governor might
& ° ( Co*tUd Next Week)
G, & F. AGENTS
HOLD CONFERENCE
IN VALDOSTA, GA.
MEET HELD IN INTEREST OF
I THE SEVERAL TOBACCO MAR
KETS WHICH ARE ON THEIR
ROAD.
All of the agents of the Georgia
& Florida Railroad from cities where
there are tobacco markets, assembled
in Valdosta for a conference with L.
J. Rowell, assistant traffic manager;
W. L. Graham, superintendent; W.
O. Wall, claim agent and S. B. Thomp
son, general agent at Augusta. In ad
dition to these officials and the agents
from Moultrie, Madison, Fla., Nash
ville, Douglas and Vidalia, E. P. Bass,
'Valdosta, assistant general freight
agent and J. M. Johnson, general,
Valdosta, were also present.
i The conference discussion centered
about the movement of the tobacco
from the various markets for this
season and the general arrangement
of schedules for the Georgia & Flori
da tobacco special. This road hav
ing more tobacco markets on it than
there are on any other one railroad,
is making every possible plan to han
dle the tobacco each day with the
greatest facility in order to promote
the convenience of the industry.
Superintendent Graham stated that
before the closing of the market on
the first day, the road would have a
sufficient number of its own new
freight cars placed on the warehouse
tracks at each market to handle the
business quickly and that on Tuesday
night the “G. & F. Tobacco Special
would make its initial tirp for the
season.
1 Reports from the tobacco territory
as submitted to this conference show
ed that two-thirds of the crop is yet
‘to be gathered in every market terri
tory except that around Vidalia,
where the crop seems to be more ad
vanced. At ail other markets it was
shown by the reports that sales for
the first two weeks of the season will
be unusually light, but after that time
the weed will begin to flow to mar
ket in a greater volume, increasing
each day.
A. J. Thompson Dies
At Age of Fifty-Nine
The death of Mr. Andrew Jackson
Thompson, age fifty-five, occurred
j at the deceased’s home at South
j Thompson near this city last Friday
afternoon, after an illness of about
three months. Mr. Thompson was a
well-known farmer and a member of
Masonic lodge. The funeral was held
at the home last Sunday afternoon
at four o’clock with Rev. J. H. Mc-
Cullough officiating, being assisted
by Rev. J. J. Snipes, pastor of the
South Thompson Baptist church; the
deceased being a member of that
church. Interment was in the South
Thompson cemetery.
Mr. Thompson is survived by the
following: His wife, Mrs. A. J. Thomp
son and seven children: Messrs. E. L.,
and E. 0.. Misses Lilly, Claudia, Mrs.
G C. Spell, of Vidalia; Mrs. T. J.
Owen, of Webster, Florida and
Clydia Thompson of Bustinel, Fla.,
also three brothers and three sisters
survive, who are: J. T„ B. L., and D.
W. Thompson of Vidalia; Mrs. H. W.
Reeves, Miss Allie Thompson, also of
this city and Mrs. A. F. Odom of
Savannah.
Pall bearers were: Messrs. Wrougn
ton, Markham,: McGowan, Johnson,
Screws and Wing.
McColskey Undertaking company
of this city was in charge of funeral
arrangements.
SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN VIDALIA
DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B EST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
VIDALIA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1927.
VIDALIA COTTON
SEASON OPENED
HERE THIS WEEK
MR. JAS. O’BRIEN OF HIGGSTON
BRINGS IN FIRST BALE; MR.
FULMER, WHOSE FARM IS IN
! THIS COUNTY, BRINGS IN THE
SECOND BALE NEW COTTON.
The 1927 cotton season opened in
Vidalia this week when Mr. James
»
O’Brien of the Higgston section,
brought the first new bale to market.
The bale came to the warehouse on
the third of the month, which makes
the season here just one day eariler
than it opened last year. The new
bale was weighed at the Vidalia Cot
ton Warehouse and bought by this
concern. Mr. O’Brien is one of the
best farmers in this section, he being
on the Lowe farm near Higgston,
just across the Montgomery county
line.
! On the fourth, a bale was ginned by
Mr. Walter Fulmer, whose farm is in
this county. An inspection of the
fields shows that the crop will be
moving soon, but this in taken as an
indication of a very short crop for
this season, as cotton opening too ear
ly is caused by unhealthy weed.
Cotton this season in Vidalia will
be bought by the same buyers as last
season with a few additional bidders.
The Vidalia Cotton Warehouse will
be opened to receive the staple as it
comes and the buyers will make
headquarters there just as they did
last season. Both the J. F. Darby
Gin and the Vidalia Cotton Oil Com
pany gins are in good condition and
will be operated with a view to gin
ning out each day, so that the next
day’s start can be made fresh.
Vidalia has been one of the lead
ing markets in this section for a num
ber of decades and the members of
the local cotton fraternity will make
every effort to keep a regular staple
market from first to las.,
SHUMAN-HARRIS
I OPENS IN IT’S NEW
BUILDING TUES
ATTRACTIVE NEW BUILDING,
I CONSISTING OF SALES ROOMS,
| OFFICES, PARTS DEPARTMENT
j AND REPAIR SHOP OPENED.
I Vidalia’s tobacco market opening
Tuesday, which brought to the city
more than 5,000 people from more
: than twenty counties, was not the
•only attraction of the day, the beau
tiful new building recently completed
by Mr. D. C. Harris of this city, for
the account of the Shuman-Harris
Motor Company, popular Chevrolet
dealers of this city, was opened. The
decorations profusely displayed add
ed to the attractiveness of the build
ing. In the afternoon from four to
six, refreshments were served to those
visiting.
Mrs, Elizabeth Steoh
| ens of Ohoopee Dies
! At Age of Eighty-One
Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens, wife of
Mr. J. A. Stephens of Ohoopee, Ga.,
died at her home Monday morning
at the age of eighty-onc after several
year’s illness. The funeral of the
deceased was held Wednesday morn
ing at nine o’clock at the Ohoopee
Baptist church with Dr. J. C. Brew
ton, pastor of the Vidalia Baptist
church, officiating, the deceased be
il;g a member of the Baptist church
at that place. Interment was in the
Ohoopee cemetery.
Mrs. Stephens is survived by the
folowing: Mrs. G. L. I,ane and Mrs.
A. A. Webb of Ohoopee; Mr. H. M.
Stephens of Ailey, Ga.; Mrs. J. W.
Webb, of TJnadilla, Ga.; and several
grandchildren. ,
DESK FACTORY IS
i TO BE STARTED I
IN VIDALIA SOON
NEW ADJUSTABLE DESKS TO BE
MANUFACTURED HERE; OR
DER ALREADY RECEIVED FOR
PRODUCT.
i
' l Along with the many new improve
ments and developments here is a
new enterprise for this city and the
Southern States, that is, a manufac
toring plant for the building of ad
justable school desks has been started
by the J. F. Darby Lumber Company,
of this city.
The desk is very unique and is the \
invention of Mr. W. T. P. Geiger,
who is not only the inventor and
manufacturer of this article, but has
served our state for many years as
a teacher, making him familiar with \
the requirements of a school, especial
ly when it comes to chairs or desks,
for the pupils. This school desk has
many advantages qver the common t
cast or steel end desk, but the most
advantageous feature is the adjust
ments. This desk can be adjusted to
fit the child rather than the child
adjusted to fit the desk. ;
Work has already started on the
first order of these desks, which are
proving very popular and sell readily
when shown and Mr. Geiger is very
' optimistic over the prospects for this
new invention. Vidalia appreciates
- this new industry, ar.d with its many
advantages as to location and rail
-1 road facilities, is attracting many peo
' j pie who are comtemplating moving |
! somewhere .
Thousands eagerly await
Final Key in $30,000
Coca-Cola prize contest
MR. H. LEON ADAMS, OF VIDA
LIA, BOTTLER, HOPES TO SEE
FIRST PRIZE OF SIO,OOO WON
BY LOCAL CONTESTANT.
________
As an experiment in the creation of
reader-interest in modern advertising
the $30,000 cash prize Coca-Cola con
test presents one of the most impres-.
sive demonstrations the country has
ever seen according to Mr. H. Leon
Adams, president of the Coca-Cola
Bottling Company of Vidalia.
j “During the first two weeks of
; August,” Mr. Adams said, “Coca-Cola
I advertising will probably draw a
greater audience of attentive readers :
than any other single series of ad
vertisements ever printed. This is
because at that time the sixth and
final 'key to the popularity of Coca
! Cola,’ which each participant in the
| contest must discover in order to win
I the prize, will be illustrated.
! “Reports from Coca-Cola dealers
! all over the country and my own ob-
I servations indicate that, now that it
! is almost time for the contest entries
j to be mailed in, thousands of people
ji n every section are growing more
land more inerested than ever in the
! possibility of winning a first prize of
SIO,OOO.
1 “There i sno reason in the world
i w hy at least some of the $30,000 ir.
! cash prizes whch the Coca-Cola Com
tianv is offering in this contest
pan y m v/a A*.* »***,
shouldn’t be won by local partici
pants. And I’m hoping that when the
check for SIO,OOO is sent out it will
be made to the order of a resident of
Vidalia. ; *
“The basis of the contest is to get
the public to read our advertising
and to reward those who have been
most alert and most discerning in
cash prizes. To compete for the
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The pall bearers were: Jarley
Stephens, E. W. Stephens, Schalk
Stephens, Rabun ar.d Alvin Webb and
W. A. Brazil.
McColskey Undertaking company
was in charge of funeral arange
ments.
Possibilities of Georgia
Extolled By Dr. Elliott
In Civic-Moral Sermon
I
PASTOR SHOWS AMAZING FA
MILIARITY WITH THE STATE’S
CONDITION IN SERMON AT
LAWRENCEVILLE
Lawrenceville, Ga., July 31.—Show
ing an amazing familiarity with the
state of affairs, past and present, in
Georgia, Dr. Thomas M. Elliott, pas- 1
tor of the Lawrenceville Methodist
church, took advantage of the fifth
Sunday in the month today and de
livered a civic sermon on “Georgia’s
|Place in the Sun” to an audience that
crowded the city auditorium, where
the exercises were held. i
The other churches and civic or
ganizations such as the Kiwanis club
joined to make the service a success.
Mrs. T. T. McGee, assisted by li
Lawrenceville girls, rendered appro
priate music for the occasion, the
songs being “Georga Land” and
“America” and “Cherokee Rose of
Georgia” and “Georgia.”
Dr. Elliott, the originator of the
idea of such a meeting in Lawrenee
ville, deserves much credit for the
time and interest put forth for the
success of the occasion. He was ably
•backed and assisted by the Kiwanis
club and Lawrenceville citizens. His
civic-moral sermon was forcibly and
fittingly delivered, he being an earn
est student in Georgia economics and
a great believer in the future of the
Empire State of the South, the possi
bilities of which are 'exceled by no
1 country, he said.
The sermon consumed fifty minutes
of eye-opening information or. educa
tional, mineral, agricultural and in
dustrial resources hroughout the state
and the audience listened with rapt
attention during the entire dscourse.
Dr. Eliot, n part, sad:
“Georga i the workshop of the
South, the reservoir of southern fi
nance, the supply depot of the South,
the South’s distributing pivot, the
/ideal climate spot of the South, the
land of beauty, the coming textile
.center of the world, the mineral bed
,0f the nation, the water power and
'electric generator of the South, the
‘ market basket of diversified crops
and industries, the South’s education
al center, the land of opportunity
'with its great potentialities bespeak
ing wealth and opportunity and em
ployment for not only it present citi-.
zenry, but for homeseekers and inves
tors throughout the entire country. I
“We direct your attention to lour j
matters that demand our attention in
seeking to promote Georgia interests
and give her her rightful place ,n the
.sun.
Lop-Sided Farming
“In the first place, Georgia has
deprived of her true place in the sun
by a strict adherence to a lop-sided
system of agriculture, in wliicn we
followed a one-crop system with a
blind fondness, and produced crops (
the marketing and pricing of which •
we had no control over. True it is
that the system was forced upon as
during the days of reconstruction,
when we were helpless, impovished
and faminished by a tyranny that
controlled the money we needed for
meat and bread, and that would loan
us that money only when we agreed ,
to fololw the one-crop system and
plant cotton alone, mortgaging the •
crop before ever the seed were put ,
in the ground. Though handicaped
by that iniquitious system of 60 years 1
ago, we have been able to climb out \
from under that yoke and make some 1
degree of progress, until now we are \
no longer forced to continue such a 1
course. ]
1 “Last year Georgia raised i,i>oo,- a
000 bales of cotton, which Herbert t
Hoover says cost 18 cents a pound
to raise, or the sum of $135,000,000. 1
Georgia sold that cotton for SBO, 1
000,000, and thereby lost the sum of i
$55,000,000 on cotton and the one- t
(Continued Next Week) x
FS
MARKET OPENING
DAY BRINGS MORE
THAN 5,000 HERE
THE HIGHWAYS AND PARKING
SPACES THROUGHOUT THE
CITY ARE FILLED WITH CARS
FROM TOBACCO SECTIONS.
Today (Thursday) the third day of
the tobacco market it appears that
Vidalia will again lead the entire
state in sales, tonnage today will go
over 300,000 pounds. At this time
we go to press with sales still on in
two of the large warehouses, with an
average of 22.65, however, we are
unable to give the full report of to
day’s sales due to the fact that we
must publish before the sales are
over.
Reports from the Georgia tobacco
markets yesterday (Wednesday) re
veal that the sales on a number of
markts were slightly under those
made on the opening day Tuesday
and also the average price on several
of the 20 markets scattred through
out the belt was slightly under that
of the first day. According to both
buyers and growers this drop is cus
tomary in the first few days of the
market, as always at the beginning
of the season the poorest grade of
the golden leaf is marketed first.
The opening day was the greatest
in the history of the leaf markets in
this state, with sales totaling well over
3,000,000 pounds and the price aver
aging 21.56 cents per pound. The
'market at Vidalia led the state for
the total sales made on the opening
day, that market selling 825,000 at
an average price of 21 cents. The
growers on the Vidalia market realiz
ing $173,250 for the day’s sales.
The sales for yesterday were light
due to the fact that considerable to
bacco is still in the fields due to the
weather retarding the season but the
growers are anticipating the best
season this year and prices for the
estimated crop of 50,000,00 pounds
are expected to average something
above 20 cents.
The sales will continue light forth 9
I next week, growers say and by that
! time the majority of the crop will be
cured and brought to the market for
j sale.
Wednesday’c Sales
On Wednesday Vidalia again le<f
i the state for the sales during the
day with 400,000 pounds sold and
was followed, it is said, by Metter
with sales of 250,00 and Douglas
had the third largest sales with 200,-
j 000 pounds.
Three Sets of Buyers ''*»
Before this year’s season opened,
predictions were that Vidalia was
destined to be the largest and lead
ing tobacco market in the state,
since opening on Tuesday of this
V'eek, and with over a million pounds
here in that day and the three large
warehouses filled to capacity, the
prediction the leading tobacco men
made with reference to this market
being the largest in the state, is be
ing made a reality. The need of
the present floor space being increas
ed, which consists of 200,000 square
feet, or more warehouses and three
sets of buyers, is already being talk
ed among the prominent tobacco men
here. Since this sect on produces
the very grade of tob; -co, the grade
that is in the greate t demand, and
wdth many other i: ortant advan
tages here, and w ,: t earnest effort
by both growers am’ warehousemen
put forth to this en , the prospects
were never brighter for these predic
tions to be made a reality and in the
very near future- The warehouses
have the very bforces here to
handle the v.eed i. is possible to get
and they nre ing everything that
they can for the grower and the
manufacture.
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