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sdfs VOLUME XXV 'Fourth Successful Week of Vidalia Tobacco Market “Gold Leaf” Business Review a Feature of this Issi re The “Gold Leaf’’ review in this edition is devoted to a brief resume j of Vidalia’s leading enterprises which ' * make up the business fabrics of the town today. These firms have co-op erated to place Vidalia in the posi tion she now enjoys as one of the most progressive towns of its size in Georgia, as well as one of the state's J outstanding and growing tobacco markets. These home firms have been a potent factor in the development of j is community and have shown their lb yalty to the town in periods of adversity as well as through times of prosperity, and are deserving of 1 the support and hearty co-operation of every public spirited citizen who is interested in Vidalia’s future Some of Things That Make A Good Town Put a peg of prosperity into your community by staying with it. Always greet your neighbors with a grasp of confidence. Criticize in the spirit of God speed. Say a good word if it hurts. Re- ember that those who insist on ’hanging themselves will do it if given enough rope. Give your neighbor a right to an opinion as long as he keeps it : to himself. Discuss questions involving your better welfare instead of arguing with them. Apply the golden rule, regardless • of consequence. Back up your churches and rela jfPtive affiliations. You will feel bet ter, and besides be setting a good example for the young people. Give the young people plenty of pleasure, but see that you known what they are doing. Failures reflest on the entire town. See what you can do *' keep your neighbor on top of the water. Don’t let him drown. Let’s have more handshakes and arm in arm conferences, with a good will parting. It adds to that day’s events. Let’s break the shell and step Lout. The world is wondering what we are going to do next. Let s show ’em. —The Nashville Herald. WANTNED —Boarder, apply 107 Thompson stret. Below Dixie ho tel. J .F. Sutton. 2tpd. SPECIALS FOR Saturday and Monday 25c can Turnip .20 . Greens ...... k -25c bottle Manchuria 2Q Cherries . 20c bottle Manchuria 14 • Cherries Only r 50c Heaser Cocoa, .38 1 pound 1 Gallon Statey 65 Syrup 30c Rosedale 24 Peaches 15c Lye Horminy 12 For 5 Boxes Gold Dust .20 For 5 Boxes Sunday, Mon day Soap 10 lbs. Blue Rose .70 Rice 6 boxes 5c Matches 20 For Phone 27 WARTHEN GROCERS. 1 THE VIDALIA ADVANCE growth and development. The write-ups contained in this j review describe briefly some of the . characteristic features of these en terprises and embody information which will be of interest to the older residents of Vidalia and Toombs county as well as to new comers and visitors. ** " Every effort has been made to give the reader a comprehensive idea of the progress made in all lines of local business endeavor. vv e hope 'that this feature will not only prove interesting, but also a rather clean, legitimate statement of facts enabling our readers to gain additional knowledge of Vidalia’s ■ affairs. Presbyterian Church (CITY HALL) If you want to live a healthy holy life, growing in Christly graces, and exercising honor for good on those you are thrown with, come to our Bible School at 10 a. m., Sunday, and you will find it a big help to that end. At 11 a. m. Dr. Martindale will bring a message most needful on “Christ’s Conditions to Discipleship,” the offering being for church sup port and Synod’s Home Mission Work. At 8:30 p. m. he will preach on “The Need of the Hour—-Practic ing Christianity.’ Everybody, espe cially traveling men, tobacco buyers and sellers, most cordially invited. Here’s a chance to show your love for Christ and His world. On Wednesday, 8:30 p. m., the mid week service will be held at Mr. D. E. Brumfield’s home, led by the pas | ton on “Conscience as a Motice— Power in the Work.” Acts 4:11-23. Members and firends are most wel | come. Let us do nur best to make j this a fine meting, both coming and . bringing others. Whatever your calling, remember: money gained at the expense of righteousness on Sunday or on other | days—is bad business. VIDALIA COTTON OIL CO. IMPORTANT LOCAL INDUSTRY In this feafure story of Vidalia we desire to bring out the value of the service and the qualities of the various concerns that operate in this erriory and for this reason we deem it proper to give commendable men tion to the activities of the VIDALIA COTTON OIL COMPANY. It is such concerns as this that make a liver, betfer city and w r e are more than glad to refer them to our readers. This entrprise was established in 1903 by Mr. W. T. Jenkins and dur ing these years has played an im portant part in local development and has become one of the communi ty’s most important and most neces sary industries. They operate an eight stand ginnery with every facil ity for rapid and efficient service and enjoy the patronage and friend ship of a large number of the farm ers of this section. They also oper ate several other gins located at Soperton, Normantown, Lyons and Elza. Their oil mill plant is modern in construction and equipment and is devoted to the manufacture of cot ton seed products which are shipped VIDALIA CHEMICAL CO., ASSET TO TOOMBS COUNTY FARMERS The splendid array of concerns of Toombs county bear ample an 1 for cible tsstimony to the exceptionable enterprises of progressiveness of oiu business men, and ths staunch qual ities untied with the highly favor able agricultural resources of the county render th efutur progress of the eommunity a matter of abso lute centainty. In referring to the representative enterprises of Toombs ccuntv mention is due the VIDALIA CHEMICAL COMPANY. This institution was originally founded more than 22 years ago uy George N. Matthews, Sr., and is one of Vidalia’s pioneer enterprises that has contributed to the development cf this section. They have survived through both good and bad times and today they operate the only mixing plant in the odty. The plant is mod SELL YOUR TOBACCO IN VIDALIA DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOOMBS, THE B EST COUNTY IN THE STATE. TOBACCO SALES RECALLS STORY OF LONG AGO. STORY IS TOLD THAT WIVES WERE BOUGHT FOR 120 LBS. OF “WEED.” ATLANTA, GA., August 25 Georgia tobacco growers who now are receiving good prices for their pro duct—a crop valued approximately at $15,000,000 annually—are recalling a story that a Virginia colonist, be tween the years 1619 and 1621 could secure a wife for the trifle of 120 pounds of smoking leaf. • • • Yet such was the case, according to historical records. This opportu nity was offered by the governing of ficials who made a business of im porting groups of young women from England to feather the plant ers’ nest. Ninety maidens “young and un corrupt” comprised the first ship ment to arrive at Jamestown. The settlers flocked to the landing place and chose their mates with no fur ther preliminaries than a nod, a smile and “ Are you willing?” The mar riage ceremony was performed im mediately on the spot. Ninety men returned to their cabins on one eventful day with brides whose first names they hardly knew. The experimental cargo proved so successful to all concerned that several similar transactions were consummated in the years that fol lowed. The 120 pounds of tobacco required each planter that took a bride was to cover the cost of the young woman’s transportation across the sea, tobacco being the legal ten |der of the colony at thetime. One hundred and twenty pounds of | tobacco, of the kind that has been in j evidence on the floors of the tobacco warehouses in South Georgia since the season opened, brings a fraction less than $27. The average price of Georgia tobacco, according to recent sales, is above $22 a hundred pounds. to all parts of the United Spates and other countries bringing outside money to Vidalia. T4*e fact that this is a local industry, using raw pro ducts produced in this section and manufacturing products which are shipped to other sections of the coun try, should be given the support of all local people. This is an enterprise that is of distinct value to the merchants and farmeis of Toombs county in as much as it furnishes at home market for cotton seed as well as a large weekly pay roll, nw>st of which is ispent wish Vidalia merchants and thus aids in the development of the town and country at large. Regular employment is given to a large num ber of workmen. The VIDALIA COTTON OIL COM PANY has for its officers W. T. Jenkins, president; W. T. McAr thur, Vice-»Presideni and Chess Abernathy, Manager of whom are well know-n business men and the public generally. They have always been counted as friends of the farmers of this community and it has always been their policy to co-operate in any movement to their advantage. ern in construction and equipment and is devoted to the rnbanufacturi of high grade fertilizers. This is an enterprise that is of distinct value tc the farmers of Toombs county, in asmuch as it furnishes them with high grade fertilizer at a minimum j cost and at she same time keeps the j farmers money at home. ; TThe gentlemen at the head of this -firm are: Mr. Strabhar, President; Mr. George N. Matthews, Sr., Vice- President; and Mr. Mark W. Mat thews, General Manager. They ar.' j well known in Vidalia and therefore need no introduction in these cci jumns. They are of that type of pro ! gressive business men who always do their full share in every undertaking for the betterment of the communit" and are counted among the most - alert and progressive men of the icity. VIDALIA, GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927. Georgia State Fair Ma king Plans for Opening SAVANNAH, GA., August 25. ' There is much to be done towards , getting the Georgia State Fair in shape for the eighth season, October 24-29. This need does not shown itself on the surface, work has been started on getting the build ings ready for exhibits. New roofs will be put on the main exhibit buildings. These have been worn in places since erection in 1920. It is absolutely necessary to have 1 all department structures water tight because of the large quantity of valuable goods brought for dis play during Fair week. The tract, seventy-five acres in all, is fenced. This fencing also will be put in first class repair as protection to the outdoor property and animal ex hibits. 1 President Thos. A. Jones an nounces the appointment of Gordon Saussy, Esq., as director in charge of racing, and T. Pratt Wright, De puty Sheriff, an experienced horse man, as Superintendent ,and active ly in charge of getting up the week’s card. This year all turf events will be restricted to animals in Georgia and South Carolina and President Jones is endeavoring to get as many horses as possible form Georgia be arranged as soon as entries are farms. Events of the program will lined up. With a few weeks 5,000 copies of the premium list will be off the press giving full particulars of various departments and requirements for qualifying exhibits. These, too. will be given wide distribution among farmers in outlying territory. you can obtain ten regu lar full-Blze Marivonne (.1 $1.98 and the coupon be- v^jj^gfpl low or the one left at your home. This Is the manufacturer’s method vs Iff of advertising. After this M jft Initial demonstration, the g jPJ| Individual items will be «n sale at our store test them and even \lftl you are not satisfied, * DEE V T PHARMACY, Vidalia, Ga. ;New Chevrolet • Zone Sales Offices Are Created Creation of a new Chevrolet zone sales office, the 20th to be opened I 1925 and the 43rd now established I of which have parts distributions de pots providing the public with quck er and more efficient survice, was announced today by H. J Klingler, general sales manager of the Chev rolet Motor Company. The new zone, located at Port land, Me., is the ninth to be estab lished since the first of the year, ac cording to Mr. Klingler, others hav ing ben opened at Columbia, S. C.; Salt Lake City; Richmond, Va.; El Paso, Tex.; Charleston, W. Va.; Wichita, Kan., and Seattle Wash. “The rapidity with whiph new of fices have been opened this year de notes a generally healthful condi tion of business throughout the * country,” Mr. Klingler said. “It will be noted that our new offices are located in every section of the United States, an indication that conditions are uniformly good, which ( augurs well for the fall outlook. 1 Further evidence of this is contain-1 ed in the fact that Chevrolet sales for every month this year showed a substantial gain over th esame pe- ( riod last year, and August sales for the first ten days indicated that we will have the best August on record. By the middle of the month factory production will have exceeded the etnire output of 1926. ■ “Our policy is to place new zone offices wherever the growth in car i sales warrants it. With this in mind we get a new index of the enormous increase in production and sales of Chevrolet by noting that in 1925 we had only 23 zone offices and an an nual output of 519,060 units. To day we have 43 zone offices and our factories are planning to turn near ly one million cars this year.. “The new office at Portland, gives us a network of wholesale points in every section of the country, ex tending from Portland, Me., to Jack sonville, Fla., and from Seattle, Wash, to Los Angeles, Cal., with i many intermediate points such as largo, N. D., El Paso, Tex., and Co lumbia, S. C. The last two additions to the list were at the Northern ex tremities—Portland and Seatle. j “Towns which acquire new zone [offices benefi considerably by their j own sales manager and an assistant, a parts and service mnger, a sale 3 promotion manager ,a car distribu tor, an office manager, an account jant, five to twenty field representa ! tives, and a large clerical force | adequate to handle many thousands |of business each year. “In addition to the sales udties executed at these zones, they prove lof still further service to the pub | lie untfer our present plan that makes I many of them also parts distribution I centers. At 24 of the 443 zones {provision has been made for the es ! tablishment of parts depots, each one I to carry from $500,000 to $500,000 j worth of parts, and bringing to the i communities in which they are lo ; cated a business of these propor tions. This will obviate the delay en tailed when-, new parts have to be forwarded from the factory, and will assure Chevrolet owners everywhere of instant service on new parts or replacements. PLANTING TREES Seventy-three million trees were planted duripg; the past year. For ty-two states are trying to make up for their wastes of forests, and among these which have made the best showing are Pennsylvania, which has planted 27,916,029 new trees; New York witji 22,000,000, ar.d Michigan with 10,900,000. The state appropriation in Pennsylvania was $1,203,485. sdf FOURTH WEEK OF TOBACCO SALES PUT VIDALIA IN THE LEAD BY A GOOD MARGIN— SEASON TO CLOSE NEXT WEEK. Th fourth week of the local tobac co season is nearing an end, in fact, the sale of Friday will mark tho close of the fourth week leaving only one other weeks sale of the present season. Figures furnished from the ware house indicate that Vidalia will net only be one of the major markets ol the state this season but is the market, unless other markets run along after the closing date and build up to them figures set by the home warehouses. In point of prices, it seems that the Vidalia houses have satisfied 1 clients from all over this section of Georgia and from other state as well. Good coofon grades have said well above expectations running this week in the thirties while tips and off cur ings have sold unreasonably well, but any percentage of low grades of course brings off the general aver age to some extent, i The five million pound mark has been already exceeded and the next ’ weeks sale will go on to pof this fig ure which will make the figures for the Vidalia market probably close to 'six millions or probably a shade • more. j The economic importance < this ' much tobacco averaging above twenty cents per pound is being felt ! all over the section and especially at this place while all checks are | dared and thepay roll for the hand ling is being spent. * | This season opened with the ad dition of a large new house, makibig three sales houses which operated at a profit here all during the selling weeks. Each new season as it opens will bring new development here ill ' fact rumors have been current dur | ing this week relating to new sales houses proposed for next season. Two of these rumors look as if they may devlope into a pair of new houses, each of them as large as any of the present sales prices. Other probably ifprovements for next sea son include the expansion of thd Vidalia Warehouse to cover larcdi ipA ready owned by this company, and which will hold an additional twelve thousand feet of floor space. It is said that the Vann Warehouse is to ' build their other unit next season also. Plans for this unit have been in existence since this first entered the Vidalia territory ,and tho present house was erected with a view of making the additional uoit a reality as quickly as needed. It has been clearly demonstrated this season i that two sets of buyers cannot handle the enormous volume of tobacco which is to be marketed at Vidalia during the coming years and the tobacco men of the place have al ready made representation to the tobaccco houses for additional buy ers for the coming season. j GEORGIA, Toombs Gounty: In the Superior Court of Toombs 1 County: | For good and sufficient reasons made known to the Court. The Court has ordered adjourned to re convene in an adjourned session on the 12th day of September 1927, afc 10 o’clock A. M., the August Term of Toombs Superior Court. Ordered , further that all gr;> :d and traverse jurors summoned to appear at the regular August Term of the court be and are hereby ret uired to appear for service & such adjourned term for the week beginning September 1927. This August 22, 1927. R. N. HARDEMAN, J.ulge S. C. M. J. G I ■ - Miss Kntb. 'e Jones return:' home thic we * om Cordele alt *.* spending un: s as the gues£ iof Miss Ruby St . 2. NUMBER 37